Sample Sentences for
aphorism
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    He shared his latest aphorism: "Don't let go too soon, but don't hang on too long."  (source)
    aphorism = short, wise saying
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    I had prepared myself for that, and even thought of several positive, uplifting aphorisms to cheer him up.  (source)
    aphorisms = short sayings intended to impart wisdom
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    She had a store of aphorisms which she dished out as the occasion demanded.  (source)
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    Nothing could have been less consonant with Selden's mood than Van Alstyne's after-dinner aphorisms, but as long as the latter confined himself to generalities his listener's nerves were in control.  (source)
    aphorisms = short sayings intended to impart wisdom
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    Altogether, the Old Bailey, at that date, was a choice illustration of the precept, that "Whatever is is right;" an aphorism that would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence, that nothing that ever was, was wrong.  (source)
    aphorism = short saying intended to impart wisdom
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    He would be an aphorist of last things, giving me the barest glance—civilized, ironic—as he spoke his deft and stylish line about my journey out.†  (source)
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    ESTRAGON: (aphoristic for once).†  (source)
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    I thought them admirably suited to the subject, little Zen-like aphorisms for each photograph.†  (source)
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    He could still hear his father speaking the old New England aphorism: If it wasn't painfully difficult, you did it wrong.  (source)
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    It had many imitators, and founded an aphoristic style of writing which culminated in the essays of Emerson, often mere strings of sonorous certainties, defectively articulated.†  (source)
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    There were company-wide notices about each day's menus, each day's weather, each day's words of the wise—last week's aphorisms were from MLK, Gandhi, Salk, Mother Teresa and Steve Jobs.†  (source)
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    After ten standard months I was done, acknowledging the ancient aphorism to the effect that no book or poem is ever finished, merely abandoned.†  (source)
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    They know I have no use for surgical aphorisms such as "When in doubt, cut it out" or "Why wait when you can operate" other than for how reliably they reveal the shallowest intellects in our field.†  (source)
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