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«One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.»
«I made efforts to swallow tears and to protect the species of the Japanese nation.»
«Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.»
«In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.»
«People can be induced to swallow anything, provide it is sufficiently seasoned with praise»
Author: Moliere
(Actor, Playwright, Writer)
| Keywords:
induced, inducing, praise, provide, seasoned, seasoning, sufficiently, swallow, swallow up
«Now the LORD had prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah. And Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.»
«For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.»
Author: Bible
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bud, budded, budding, meal, reap, sown, stalk, stalked, stalking, stalks, swallow, The Strangers, The Whirlwind, whirlwinds
«One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
fine, One Fine Day, spring, swallow, swallow up
«If we could sniff or swallow something that would, for five or six hours each day, abolish our solitude as individuals, atone us with our fellows in a glowing exaltation of affection and make life in all its aspects seem not only worth living, but divinely beautiful and significant, and if this heavenly, world-transfiguring drug were of such a kind that we could wake up next morning with a clear head and an undamaged constitution -- then, it seems to me, all our problems (and not merely the one small problem of discovering a novel pleasure) would be wholly solved and earth would become paradise.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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«It is by far the most elegant worship, hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense, pictures, statues, altars, shrines, relics, and the real presence, confession, absolution, -- there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides, it leaves no possibility of doubt; for those who swallow their Deity, really and truly, in transubstantiation, can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.»
Author: Lord Byron
| Keywords:
absolution, altars, confession, deity, digestion, elegant, Greek mythology, incense, mythology, real presence, relic, relics, Shrines, swallow, the Greek, transubstantiation
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