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Rhubarb: essence of stomach ache.

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Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

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He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart.

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Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.

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Just as I shall lie alone in the grave, so, in essence, do I live alone.

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By virtue of this science the poet is the Namer, or Language-maker, naming things sometimes after their appearance, sometimes after their essence, and giving to every one its own name and not another's, thereby rejoicing the intellect, which delights in detachment or boundary.

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Human history is, in essence, a history of ideas.

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The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal.

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No state, upon its own mere motion, can lawfully get out of the Union. Plainly, the central idea of secession, is the essence of anarchy.

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What you call the psychic being is the mind of the vital. The heart is the seat of this mind. And this mind is the essence of the senses. It receives things from outside, acts upon things that are outside - knows, gives consent, takes interest in them. But this mind cannot be the Ishwara, but it is the knower, the giver of the consent.

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General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living.

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Pure essence, and pure matter, and the two joined into one were shot forth without flaw, like three bright arrows from a three-string bow.

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Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge.

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Congenial labor is essence of happiness.

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Advertising is the very essence of democracy.

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The essence of all pantheism, evolutionism, and modern cosmic religion is really this proposition: that nature is our mother. Unfortunately, if you regard Nature as a mother, you discover she is a step-mother.

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Democracy can be sustained and developed only by people who understand its essence.

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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

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Egoism is the very essence of a noble soul.

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The essence of compassion is a desire to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being

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