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Letter "B" » banquet
«In a crowd, on a journey, at a banquet even, a line of thought can itself provide its own seclusion»
«Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.»
«I feel like one / Who treads alone / Some banquet-hall deserted, / Whose lights are fled, / Whose garlands dead / And all but he departed!»
«A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.»
«Everybody, sooner or later, sits down to a banquet of consequences.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Consequences
| Keywords:
banquet, banqueting, banquets, consequences, sits, sooner, sooner or later
«It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
banquet, banqueting, banquets, drunken, thirstier, thirsty
«And the king said unto Esther at the banquet of wine, What is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: and what is thy request? even to the half of the kingdom it shall be performed.»
«Haman said moreover, Yea, Esther the queen did let no man come in with the king unto the banquet that she had prepared but myself; and to morrow am I invited unto her also with the king.»
«A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
banquet, commendation, infrequency, morsels, recompense, riot
«Death is dreadful, but in the first springtime of youth, to be snatched forcibly from the banquet to which the individual has but just sat down is peculiarly appalling»
Author: Sir Walter Scott
(Biographer, Historian, Novelist, Poet)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
appalling, banquet, dreadful, forcibly, peculiarly, snatched, springtime
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