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«But his kiss was so sweet, and so closely he pressed, that I languished and pined till I granted the rest.»
Author: John Gay
(Dramatist, Poet)
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«If a product isn't selling, I want to get it out of there because it's taking up space that can be devoted to another part of my line that moves. Besides, having a product languish on the shelves doesn't do much for our image.»
Author: Norman Melnick
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«Anyone who lives in the future languishes in the present»
«There are many kinds of smiles, each having a distinct character. Some announce goodness and sweetness, others betray sarcasm, bitterness and pride; some soften the countenance by their languishing tenderness, others brighten by their spiritual vivac»
Author: Johann Kaspar Lavater
(Theologian)
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announce, bitterness, brighten, countenance, distinct, languished, languishes, languishing, sarcasm, soften, sweetness, tenderness
«The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.»
«Industry cannot flourish if labor languish»
Author: Calvin Coolidge
(President)
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flourish, languish, languished, languishes, languishing
«As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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admission, admissions, drama, dramas, languish, languished, languishes, languishing, naked, theater
«The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.»
«Life is languished away in the gloom of anxiety, and consumed in collecting resolutions which the next morning dissipates; in forming purposes which we scarcely hope to keep, and reconciling ourselves to our own cowardice by excuses which, while we»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
anxiety, collecting, consumed, cowardice, dissipate, dissipated, dissipates, dissipating, excuses, forming, gloom, languished, languishes, languishing, purposes, reconciles, reconciling, resolutions, scarcely
«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)
| Keywords:
anguish, backward, burned-out, Burns, burnt-out, cures, desperate, giddy, infection, infections, languish, languished, languishes, languishing, lessen, rank
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