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«Gluttony is the source of all our infirmities and the fountain of all our diseases. As fire extinguished by an excess of fuel, so is the natural health of the body destroyed by an intemperate diet.»
Author: Burton
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diet, diseases, extinguished, fuel, gluttony, infirmities, intemperate, The Fountain
«The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very excess of that ailment, whose property is to feed it.»
Author: Hannah More
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ailment, devout, extinguished, invert, inverted, peruse, perused, perusing, prayer book, termed
«If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludic»
Author: Marie Louise De La Ramee
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aesthetic, cycling, extinguished, locomotion, slightest
«Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.»
Author: Francis Bacon, Sr.
(Lawyer, Philosopher)
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Nature
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extinguished, extinguishes, extinguishing, hidden, overcome, seldom
«But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished for ever.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
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calculator, calculators, economists, extinguished
«Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak ones are extinguished by it»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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endure, extinguished, extinguishes, extinguishing, history, ones, personalities, strong, The Histories, weak
«Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler.»
«All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.»
«Modesty once extinguished knows not how to return»
«Meeting with the Guru, peace is found. The fire is extinguished in His Glorious Praises.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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extinguished
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