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Letter "Q" » quaffed
«Long quaffing maketh a short lyfe»
«You are quaffing drink from a hundred fountains: whenever any of these hundred yields less, your pleasure is diminished. But when the sublime fountain gushes from within you, no longer need you steal from the other fountains.»
Author: Jalal ad-Din Rumi
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Mystic,
Poet)
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Keywords:
diminished,
fountain,
fountains,
gush,
gushed,
gushes,
quaff,
quaffed,
quaffing,
steal,
sublime,
the sublime,
yields
«So when that Angel of the darker Drink At last shall find you by the river-brink, And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul Forth to your Lips to to quaff - you shall not shrink»
«We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim / objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Critic,
Dramatist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
brim,
brimming,
brims,
draining,
eager,
filling,
haste,
overflows,
quaff,
quaffed,
quaffing,
throng,
thronged,
thronging,
waiting room
«No! Ne'er was mingled such a draught In palace, hall or arbor, As freemen brewed and tyrants quaffed, That night in Boston Harbor»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Humorist,
Physician,
Poet,
Professor,
Writer)
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Keywords:
arbor,
brew,
brewed,
brewing,
brews,
draught,
draughts,
freeman,
freemen,
hall,
harbor,
mingled,
quaff,
quaffed,
quaffing