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«Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.»
Author: A. E. Housman
(Poet, Scholar)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
almost, draw, extinguish, extinguishes, extinguishing, inadvisable, meaning, perfect, poetry, understanding, usually
«While we diminish the stimulant of fear, we must increase to prisoners the incitements of hope, in proportion as we extinguish the terrors of the law, we should awaken and strengthen the control of the conscience.»
Author: Dorothea Dix
(Philanthropist)
| Keywords:
awaken, diminish, extinguish, incitement, incitements, prisoners, stimulant, stimulants, strengthen, terrors
«The terrible thing about terrorism is that ultimately it destroys those who practice it. Slowly but surely, as they try to extinguish life in others, the light within them dies.»
«They who are afflicted with it, are seized while they are walking, (more especially if it be up hill, and soon after eating) with a painful and most disagreeable sensation in the breast, which seems as if it would extinguish life, if it were to increase or to continue; but the moment they stand still, all this uneasiness vanishes. . . . In all other respects, patients are, at the beginning of this disorder, perfectly well. . . . Males are most liable to this disease, especially such as have past their fiftieth year.»
Author: William Heberden
| Keywords:
afflicted, disagreeable, disorder, eating disorder, extinguish, fiftieth, liable, patients, respects, seized, sensation, stand still, uneasiness
«In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose.»
Author: J. Robert Oppenheimer
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
crude, cruder, extinguish, overstatement, physicist, physicists, This is a, vulgarity
«Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.»
«If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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extinguish, fired, inquiring, on fire, Our House
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