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«To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.»
Author: Benjamin Franklin
(Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer)
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lengthen, lengthened, lengthening, lengthens, lessen, lessened, lessening, lessens, meals, THY
«Motherhood is priced of God, at price no man may dare to lessen or misunderstand.»
Author: Helen Fiske Hunt Jackson
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Motherhood
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lessen, misunderstand, motherhood, priced
«What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others.»
Author: Joseph Priestley
(Chemist, Clergyman)
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lessen, respect to, tended, with respect to
«No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth.»
Author: Robert Southey
(Poet, Writer)
| About:
Cute friendship,
Friends,
Friendship,
Goodbye,
Happiness
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lapse, lapsed, lapses, lapsing, lessen, persuaded
«But life is sweet, though all that makes it sweet. Lessen like sound of friends departing feet; And death is beautiful as feet of friend. Coming with welcome at our journey's end.»
«Nothing on earth is so well-suited to make the sad merry, the merry sad, to give courage to the despairing, to make the proud humble, to lessen envy and hate, as music»
«My views and feelings are in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
| About:
War
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abolition, disposition, improving, lessen, lessened, lessening, lessens, morals, practicable, views
«Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish: Take thou some new infection to thy eye, And the rank poison of»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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anguish, backward, burned-out, Burns, burnt-out, cures, desperate, giddy, infection, infections, languish, languished, languishes, languishing, lessen, rank
«Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.»
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