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feed upon
«Indecision is debilitating; it feeds upon itself; it is, one might almost say, habit-forming. Not only that, but it is contagious; it transmits itself to others.»
Author: H. A. Hopf
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Indecision
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contagious, debilitates, debilitating, feeds, feed upon, forming, habit-forming, indecision, transmits
«God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that vulture the very creature he creates.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
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God
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feeds, feed upon, intense, Prometheus, The Vulture, vulture
«Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a perpetual succession of miracles rising into view.»
Author: Joseph Addison
(Dramatist, Essayist, Poet, Statesman)
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Admiration,
Discovery
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admiration, decays, discoveries, familiar with, Fed, feed upon, fresh, rising, short-lived, succession
«A patriot's blood,Well spent in such a strife, may earn indeed,And for a time ensure to his loved land,The sweets of liberty and equal laws;But martyrs struggle for a brighter prize,And win it with more pain. Their blood is shedIn confirmation of the noblest claim --Our claim to feed upon immortal truth,To walk with God, to be divinely free,To soar, and to anticipate the skies.Yet few remember them.»
Author: William Cowper
(Poet)
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anticipate, confirmation, confirmations, ensure, feed upon, skies, sweets
«I will feed them in a good pasture, and upon the high mountains of Israel shall their fold be: there shall they lie in a good fold, and in a fat pasture shall they feed upon the mountains of Israel.»
«DOG, n. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship. This Divine Being in some of his smaller and silkier incarnations takes, in the affection of Woman, the place to which there is no human male aspirant. The Dog is a survival --an anachronism. He toils not, neither does he spin, yet Solomon in all his glory never lay upon a door-mat all day long, sun-soaked and fly-fed and fat, while his master worked for the means wherewith to purchase the idle wag of the Solomonic tail, seasoned with a look of tolerant recognition.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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additional, all day long, anachronism, aspirant, deity, designed, divine being, dog days, fat, Fed, feed upon, idle, incarnations, overflow, overflows, place of worship, purchase, recognition, seasoned, smaller, soak, soaked, soaking, Solomon, Solomonic, spin, subsidiary, surplus, surpluses, survival, tail, takes in, The Dog, the Incarnation, toils, tolerant, wag, wagging, wags, wherewith, worked
«I had rather munch a crust of brown bread and an onion in a corner, without any more ado or ceremony, than feed upon turkey at another man?s table, where one is fain to sit mincing and chewing his meat an hour together, drink little, be always wiping his fingers and his chops, and never dare to cough nor sneeze, though he has never so much a mind to it, nor do a many things which a body may do freely by one?s self.»
«Do not hope wholly to reason away your troubles; do not feed them with attention, and they will die imperceptibly away. Fix your thoughts upon your business, fill your intervals with company, and sunshine will again break in upon your mind.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Trouble
| Keywords:
breaking away, break away, break in, feed, feed upon, fix, imperceptibly, intervals, troubles, wholly, with attention
