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Letter "E" » extract
«There surely is in human nature an inherent propensity to extract all the good out of all the evil.»
Author: Benjamin Haydon
| Keywords:
extract, extracted, extracting, extracts, Human nature, inherent, propensities, propensity
«To so interpret the language of the act is to extract more sunbeams from cucumbers than did Gulliver's mad scientist.»
«The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed Ere it gives forth the fragrance you wish to extract»
Author: Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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Heart
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boldly, delicate, extract, extracted, extracting, fragrance, give forth, trampled, weed
«The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceived who could see nothing more in a quotation than an extract»
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
(Novelist, Prime Minister)
| About:
Quotations
| Keywords:
delicacies, extract, quotation
«Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'»
Author: Albert Schweitzer
(Missionary, Musician, Philosopher, Theologian)
| About:
Childhood,
Cruelty,
Habit,
Instinct,
Memory,
Men,
Youth
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attributed, extract, inherited, shown, thoughtlessness
«You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand-heap. You must have so good an appetite as this, else you will live in vain.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
cake, extract, heap, nutriment, The Sweet
«The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
atom, chemist, compassion, compound, compounding, compounds, elements, extract, extracted, extracting, extracts, forgiveness, longing, patience, regret, surprise
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