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«Socrates called beauty a short-lived tyranny; Plato, a privilege of nature; Theophrastus, a silent cheat; Theocritus, a delightful prejudice; Carneades, a solitary kingdom; Aristotle, that it was better than all the letters of recommendation in the w»
Author: Francis Quarles
(Poet)
| Keywords:
Aristotle, cheat, delightful, Plato, recommendation, recommendations, short-lived, short letter, Socrates, Theocritus, Theophrastus
«Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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Admiration,
Discovery
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admiration, decays, discoveries, familiar with, Fed, feed upon, fresh, rising, short-lived, succession
«Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
| About:
Admiration
| Keywords:
decays, short-lived
«Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.»
«Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.»
«It came into him life, it went out from him truth. It came to him short-lived actions; it went from him poetry. It was a dead fact; now, it is quick thought. It can stand, and it can go. It now endures, it now flies, it now inspires. Precisely in porportion to the depth of mind from which it issued, so high does it soar, so long does it live.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
endures, inspires, issued, short-lived, soar
«An untruthful person speaks lies and as a result, is short lived. »
«The meager, short-lived dream, this thing - you are engrossed in it, over and over again.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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engrossed, meager, over and over, over and over again, short-lived
«It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.»
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