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«The future belongs to those who are virile, to whom it is a pleasure to live, to create, to whet their intelligence on that of the others»
«Our minds are like our stomachs; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetites.»
Author: John Quinton
| Keywords:
appetites, food supply, fresh food, stomachs, supplies, whet, whets, whetted, whetting
«I must down to the seas again to the vagrant gypsy life,To the gull's way and the whale's way where the wind's like a whetted knife; And all I ask is a merry yarn from a laughing fellow-rover, And quiet sleep and a sweet dream when the long trick's o»
«If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.»
«If he turn not, he will whet his sword; he hath bent his bow, and made it ready.»
«Hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked; from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity: / Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words: / That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
bow and arrow, insurrection, insurrections, insurrection of, in secret, the insurrection, whet, whets, whetted, whetting
«If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.»
«We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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blades, double-edged, edged, strap, strapped, straps, stroke, The Return, whet, whets, whetted, whetting
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