#distilled

Poetry is life distilled. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

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There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled. ↗

— Ovid

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Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation. ↗

— Robert Hall

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I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results. ↗

— Florence Nightingale

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Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful. ↗

— Rita Dove

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I was never interested in making cool, distilled, pure objects. ↗

— Martin Puryear

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Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots. ↗

— Nicholas Culpeper

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