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«Books are embalmed minds»
«He seemed embalmed in hatred.»
Author: Ted Morgan | About: Hate | Keywords: embalm, embalmed, embalming, embalms
«Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.»
«A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond»
«Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.»
«A precedent embalms a principle.»
«EMBALM, v.i. To cheat vegetation by locking up the gases upon which it feeds. By embalming their dead and thereby deranging the natural balance between animal and vegetable life, the Egyptians made their once fertile and populous country barren and incapable of supporting more than a meagre crew. The modern metallic burial casket is a step in the same direction, and many a dead man who ought now to be ornamenting his neighbor's lawn as a tree, or enriching his table as a bunch of radishes, is doomed to a long inutility. We shall get him after awhile if we are spared, but in the meantime the violet and rose are languishing for a nibble at his _glutoeus maximus_.»
«And forty days were fulfilled for him; for so are fulfilled the days of those which are embalmed: and the Egyptians mourned for him threescore and ten days.»
«And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: embalm, embalmed, embalming, physicians
«If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will --the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them.»

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