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Letter "D" » dispensing
«A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.»
Author: Elsa Schiaparelli
(Fashion designer)
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cook, dispensed, dispenses, dispensing, sorceress, sorceresses
«Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.»
Author: George Sand
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Charity
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degrades, dispense, dispensed, dispenses, dispensing, hardens
«Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries»
Author: John Lothrop Motley
(Diplomat, Historian)
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Luxury
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dispense, dispensed, dispenses, dispense with, dispensing, luxuries, necessaries
«All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors»
Author: John Calvin
(Statesman, Theologian)
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Blessings
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benefit, blessings, deposited, depositing, deposits, dispensed, dispenses, dispensing, neighbors
«If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so useful to her that she absolutely cannot dispense with it from this moment onward the idea of annihilation which we attach to death ceases to be real what we call the end of the living animal is no longer a true finish, but a simple transformation, a transmutation of matter. According to these irrefutable principles, death is hence no more than a change of form, an imperceptible passage from one existence into another.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
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annihilation, attach, attach to, ceases, denies, destruction, dispense, dispensed, dispenses, dispense with, dispensing, finish, hence, imperceptible, irrefutable, observe, onward, passage, transformation, transformations, transmutation
«Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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Equality,
Government
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charming, disorder, dispensed, dispenses, dispensing, equality, equals, form of government, variety
«In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful --in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason --and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.»
Author: Plato
(Philosopher)
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barely, concluding, dispensing, giving birth, inquiries, in private, in the public eye, perceived, public eye, The Limit, The Public Eye, visible light
«Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.»
Author: Saint Augustine
(Bishop, Theologian)
| About:
Beauty,
Gifts
| Keywords:
dispensed, dispenses, dispensing, wicked
«Be discriminating when dispensing charity. In the name of charity or philanthropy, we tend to do injustice to one's country.»
«None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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armed, army, dispense, dispensed, dispenses, dispense with, dispensing
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