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Letter "M" » mid
«In mid-life the man wants to see how irresistible he still is to younger women. How they turn their hearts to stone and more or less commit a murder of their marriage I just don't know, but they do.»
«In the mid-course of our life»
«I feel that this is my first year, that next year is an election year, that the third year is the mid point, and that the fourth year is the last chance I'll have to make a record since the last two years; I'll be a candidate again. Everything I do in those last two years will be posturing for the election. But right now I don't have to do that.»
Author: Dan Quayle
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Vice President)
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Keywords:
candidate,
election,
Election year,
first-year,
fourth-year,
fourth,
mid,
my first,
postures,
posturing,
The Third,
third-year
«Every cock will crow upon his own dunghill. -mid 13th; 1st century AD in Latin»
Author: English Proverb
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Keywords:
A.D.,
century,
cock,
cocked,
cocking,
cocks,
cock up,
crow,
crowing,
dunghill,
dunghills,
Latin,
mid,
the 13th century,
The Crow
«Constant dropping wears away a stone. -mid 13th; earlier in Greek»
«The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when the mid becomes ulcerated, peevish, and querulous, and is wounded by the least occurrence.»
Author: Henry Ward Beecher
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Keywords:
bitterness,
choler,
continuance,
continuances,
fits,
frequent,
mid,
moronity,
occurrence,
occurrences,
oftentimes,
peevish,
propensities,
propensity,
querulous,
ulcerated,
wounded
«He that has light within his own clear breast May sit in the centre, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself his own dungeon.»
Author: John Milton
(
Historian,
Poet,
Scholar)
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Keywords:
benighted,
breast,
centre,
dungeon,
dungeons,
foul,
hides,
Light Within,
mid,
Mid Day,
sit in
«Your reason and your passion are the rudder and the sails of your seafairing soul, if either your sails or your rudder be broken, you can but toss and drift, or else be held at a standstill in mid-seas. For reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
(
Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
alone,
broken,
Burns,
confining,
destruction,
drift,
drifted,
drifts,
either,
flame,
flamed,
force,
held,
In Flames,
mid,
or else,
passion,
rudder,
ruling,
rulings,
sails,
seas,
sea a,
standstill,
toss,
tosses,
tossing,
toss in,
toss out,
Toss Up,
unattended
«Keep a mid course between two extremes.»