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«The Summer hath his joys, / And Winter his delights. / Though Love and all his pleasures are but toys, / They shorten tedious nights.»
Author: Thomas Campion (Composer, Physician, Poet) | Keywords: delights, shorten, tedious, toys
«To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.»
Author: W. J. Vogel | Keywords: borrow, due, shorten, shortening, shortens, winter
«And if I drink oblivion of a day, / So shorten I the stature of my soul.»
Author: George Meredith (Novelist, Poet) | Keywords: shorten
«Envy and wrath shorten the life»
Author: Bible | Keywords: shorten, wrath
«If you wouldst live long, live well; for folly and wickedness shorten life»
Author: Benjamin Franklin (Inventor, Philosopher, Printer, Scientist, Statesman, Writer) | Keywords: folly, long-lived, shorten, shortening, shortens, wickedness
«Do not shorten the morning by getting up late; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer (Philosopher) | Keywords: extent, look upon, quintessence, shorten, shortening, shortens
«ABRIDGE, v.t. To shorten.When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for people to abridge their king, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. --Oliver Cromwell»
Author: Ambrose Bierce (Editor, Journalist, Writer) | Keywords: abridge, abridged, abridges, abridging, Cromwell, Human Events, impel, impelling, impels, Oliver, Oliver Cromwell, separation, shorten
«I have often been asked, ''Do not people bore you?'' I do not understand quite what that means. I suppose the calls of the stupid and curious, especially of newspaper reporters, are always inopportune. I also dislike people who try to talk down to my understanding. They are like people who when walking with you try to shorten their steps to suit yours; the hypocrisy in both cases is equally exasperating.»
Author: Helen Keller (Author, Educator) | Keywords: bore, calls, cases, curious, dislike, equally, exasperated, exasperates, exasperating, hypocrisies, hypocrisy, inopportune, newspaper, Reporters, shorten, shortening, shortens, steps, suit, suppose, talk down, The Reporter
«Two shorten the road»
Author: Irish Sayings | Keywords: shorten, shortening, shortens
«And when you journey in the earth, there is no blame on you if you shorten the prayer, if you fear that those who disbelieve will cause you distress, surely the unbelievers are your open enemy. (The Women 4.101)»
Author: quran | About: Earth, Enemies, Journey, Prayer, Religion | Keywords: distress, shorten, unbeliever, unbelievers
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