Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.
Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects. Extreme heat kills, and so extreme cold: extreme love breeds satiety, and so extreme hatred; and too violent rigor tempts chastity, as does too much license.
FICKLENESS, n. The iterated satiety of an enterprising affection.
Revenge is barren its delight is murder, And its satiety, despair.
In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.
From abundance springs satiety.
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word "satiety."
I know a love may be revived which absence, inconstancy, or even infidelity has extinguished, but there is no returning from a dTgovt given by satiety.
SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.
He lay back for a little in his bed thinking about the smells of food ... of the intoxicating breath of bakeries and dullness of buns.... He planned dinners, of enchanting aromatic foods ... endless dinners, in which one could alternate flavour with flavour from sunset to dawn without satiety, while one breathed great draughts of the bouquet of old brandy.
The phases of fire are craving and satiety.
Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.
When
the blood is made dull with the act of sport, there should be,
again to inflame it and to give satiety a fresh appetite,
loveliness in favor, sympathy in years, manners, and beauties-
all which the Moor is defective in.
Satisfaction -- is the Agent
Of Satiety --
Want -- a quiet Commissary
For Infinity.
Everything is good . . . as long as it is unpossessed. Satiety and possession are Death's horses they run in span.
Satiety comes of too frequent repetition and he who will not give himself leisure to be thirsty can never find the true pleasure of drinking
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