#distilled

Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation. ↗

— Robert Hall

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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

#bring #distilled #feelings #i #i think

A proverb is much matter distilled into few words. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#few #into #matter #much #proverb

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. ↗

— Rita Dove

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The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect. ↗

— Carson McCullers

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The violinist is that peculiarly human phenomenon distilled to a rare potency - half tiger, half poet. ↗

— Yehudi Menuhin

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Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots. ↗

— Nicholas Culpeper

#flowers #fruits #herbs #out #roots

She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes. ↗

— Anne Edwards

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I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects. ↗