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Letter "T" » tyrannizes
«Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.»
Author: Marquis De Sade
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
demands, lust, lusted, lusting, lust after, served, tyrannize, tyrannizes
«It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow citizens»
«It is better that a man should tyrannize over his bank balance than over his fellow-citizens and whilst the former is sometimes denounced as being but a means to the latter, sometimes at least it is an alternative.»
«Times change and forms and their meanings alter. Thus new poems are necessary. Their forms must be discovered in the living language of their day, or old forms, embodying exploded concepts, will tyrannize over the imagination.»
Author: William Carlos Williams
(Poet)
| Keywords:
alter, concepts, embodying, exploded, meanings, poems, tyrannize, tyrannizes
«There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.»
«Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Fear
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assist, implant, implanted, implanting, implants, overbear, overbearing, overborne, preservative, preservatives, tyrannize, tyrannizes
«Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses.»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
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Fear
| Keywords:
assist, beset, besets, besetting, overbear, overbearing, overborne, phantoms, preservative, preservatives, tyrannize, tyrannizes
«No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize him and thus force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
airy, Beyond the Limits, tyrannize, tyrannizes
«Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.»
Author: Socrates
(Philosopher)
| About:
Children,
Parents
| Keywords:
contradict, food, gobble, Gobbles, parents, teachers, tyrannize, tyrannizes, tyrants
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