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Letter "S" » sap
«Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
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Architect,
Engineer,
Painter,
Sculptor)
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About:
Action
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Keywords:
disuse,
even so,
inaction,
iron,
ironed,
ironing,
irons,
loses,
purity,
rusted,
rusts,
sap,
sapped,
sapping,
saps,
stagnation,
vigour,
water
«I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.»
Author: Agatha Christie
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Detective,
Novelist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
age of,
blooming,
enjoyed,
finish,
fresh,
greatly,
opened,
personal relation,
Personal relations,
relations,
rising,
sap,
sapped,
sapping,
saps,
Second Coming,
Second Thoughts,
The Second Coming
«Entering the earth I support all beings with My energy; becoming the sap-giving moon I nourish all the plants.»
«Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.»
Author: George Eliot
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Novelist)
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About:
Conscience,
Growth
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Keywords:
bud,
budded,
budding,
circulation,
detect,
detects,
registered,
registering,
registers,
sap,
saps,
The Register
«For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily, and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel. Or was it, maybe, a frost that had turned its sap to ice, and so it stood, bitter-sweet, still fair to see, but stricken, soon to fall and die?»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
(
Author,
Writer)
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Keywords:
An elf,
ELF,
fairest,
Frost,
frosted,
frosting,
frosts,
hard steel,
House of,
ice,
lily,
maiden,
perceived,
Queens,
sap,
sapped,
sapping,
saps,
shapely,
steel,
stood,
stricken,
strike hard,
unhappiness,
wright,
wrought
«All these things have you said of beauty. Yet in truth you spoke not of her but of needs unsatisfied, And beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted. It is not the image you would see nor the song you would hear, But rather an image you see though you close your eyes and a song you hear though you shut your ears. It is not the sap within the furrowed bark, nor a wing attached to a claw, But rather a garden for ever in bloom and a flock of angels for ever in flight. People of Orphalese, beauty is life when life unveils her holy face. But you are life and you are the veil. Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror. But you are eternity and your are the mirror.»
Author: Kahlil Gibran
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Essayist,
Novelist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
angels,
attached,
attaching,
attach to,
bark,
barked,
bloom,
bloomed,
blooming,
claw,
clawing,
close,
ears,
ecstasies,
ecstasy,
empty-handed,
empty,
enchant,
enchanted,
enchanting,
enchants,
eternity,
flight,
flock,
forth,
furrow,
furrowed,
furrows,
garden,
gazed,
gazes,
gazing,
hand to mouth,
Have You,
holy,
image,
in flight,
in truth,
mirror,
mirror image,
mouth,
People of,
sap,
sapped,
sapping,
saps,
shut,
song,
spoke,
stretched,
take flight,
The Image,
The Mirror,
thing in itself,
thirsted,
thirsting,
unsatisfied,
unsatisfying,
unveil,
unveiled,
unveiling,
unveils,
veil,
veiling,
veils,
wing
«Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind.»
Author: Leonardo da Vinci
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Architect,
Engineer,
Painter,
Sculptor)
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Keywords:
cold iron,
Cold Water,
cold weather,
disuse,
even so,
frozen,
inaction,
purity,
rusts,
sap,
sapped,
saps,
stagnant
«General principles... are to the facts as the root and sap of a tree are to its leaves.»
«The fascination of what's difficultHas dried the sap out of my veins, and rentSpontaneous joy and natural contentOut of my heart.»
Author: William Butler Yeats
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Dramatist,
Poet,
Writer)
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Keywords:
dried,
fascination,
fascinations,
rent,
sap,
saps,
spontaneous,
vein,
veins