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Letter "W" » wax
«Do not weep. Do not wax indignant. Understand.»
Author: Baruch Spinoza
(Philosopher)
| About:
Understanding
| Keywords:
indignant, wax, waxes, waxing
«Death is patiently making my mask as I sleep. Each morning I awake to discover in the corners of my eyes the small tears of his wax.»
Author: Philip Dow
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
awake, corners, mask, patiently, wax, waxes, waxing
«For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.»
Author: Jonathan Swift
(Author, Satirist)
| Keywords:
chosen, corner, dirt, furnishing, furnishings, have got, hive, hives, honey, noblest, poison, ranging, search and, sweetness, sweetness and light, wax, waxes, waxing
«Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.»
«I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.»
«Generally, about all perception, we can say that a sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet ring without the iron or gold»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| Keywords:
impress, iron, perception, receiving, ring, sensible, signet, signets, signet ring, the matter, wax, waxes, waxing
«If thou afflict them in any wise, and they cry at all unto me, I will surely hear their cry; / And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.»
«Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him. As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.»
«His heart was one of those which most enamour us, / Wax to receive, and marble to retain.»
«Between ourselves and our real natures we interpose that wax figure of idealizations and selections which we call our character.»
Author: Walter Lippmann
(Journalist)
| About:
Character
| Keywords:
idealization, idealizations, interpose, interposed, interposing, selections, wax, wax figure
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