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Letter "E" » enliven
«I am so fond of tea that I could write a whole dissertation on its virtues. It comforts and enlivens without the risks attendant on spirituous liquors. Gentle herb! Let the florid grape yield to thee. Thy soft influence is a more safe inspirer of social joy.»
Author: James Boswell
(Biographer)
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Comfort,
Tea
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«Nevertheless, in order to imbue civilization with sound principles and enliven it with the spirit of the gospel, it is not enough to be illumined with the gift of faith and enkindled with the desire of forwarding a good cause. For this end it is necessary to take an active part in the various organizations and influence them from within. And since our present age is one of outstanding scientific and technical progress and excellence, one will not be able to enter these organizations and work effectively from within unless he is scientifically competent, technically capable and skilled in the practice of his own profession.»
Author: Pope John XXIII
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«The feeling of friendship is like that of being comfortably filled with roast beef; love, like being enlivened with champagne.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Feelings,
Friendship,
Love
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«Man could direct his ways by plain reason, and support his life by tasteless food, but God has given us wit, and flavor, and brightness, and laughter to enliven the days of man's pilgrimage, and to charm his pained steps over the burning marble»
Author: Sydney Smith
(Clergyman, Essayist, Wit)
| About:
God,
Mankind
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brightness, enliven, enlivened, enlivens, flavor, pained, pilgrimage, tasteless
«There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; easy, pleasant, empty, perhaps enlivened by some fable of strife to be forgotten -- before the end is told -- even if there happens to be any end to it.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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cigar, enliven, enlivened, enlivens, fable, here and there, strife
«Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.»
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