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Letter "D" » draughts
«I am sick of the solace of sorrow, And fear what the prophets foretold; I am tired of the tears of tomorrow, And wish that things were as of old; I have felt of the force of the fetters, I have drunk of the draught that embitters, And all is not gold»
«No person hath drunk a better draught than that of anger which he hath swallowed for God's sake»
«O thou undaunted daughter of desires! / By all thy dower of lights and fires; / By all the eagle in thee, all the dove; / By all thy lives and deaths of love; / By thy large draughts of intellectual day.»
«Feeling without judgment is a washy draught indeed; but judgment untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition»
Author: Charlotte Bronte
| About:
Feelings,
Judgement
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deglutition, draught, draughts, husky, morsel, morsels, untempered, washy
«Neither drink (coffee or tea) was known in Frankish lands, but seated in the coffeehouses, I drank of each at various times, twirling my mustache and listening with attention to that headier draught, the wine of the intellect, that sweet and bitter j»
«A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain, And drinking largely sobers us again»
Author: Alexander Pope
(Poet)
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Learning
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draughts, drinking, intoxicate, intoxicates, intoxicating, largely, Pierian, Pierian Spring, shallow, sobers, The Brain
«One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom --such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it --those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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boredom, contemplation, despondency, draught, draughts, duties, ennui, entrenched, entrenches, fountain, innermost, profoundest, quarter, receives, refreshes, refreshing, such as
«More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple pity that will not forsake us»
«Fill it up. I take as large draughts of liquor as I did of love. I hate a flincher in either.»
«No! Ne'er was mingled such a draught In palace, hall or arbor, As freemen brewed and tyrants quaffed, That night in Boston Harbor»
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