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aphorism
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synonyms: epigram, apothegm, maxim, jeu dʼesprit, dictum ???
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Definition:a pithy observation that contains general truth---n. Predigested wisdom.Ambrose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary
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They are full of such pithy aphorisms. Take it one day at a time. Let go and let God. Do the next right thing. Live life on life's terms. Easy does it. My brain was turning into a bumper sticker [...].
J. Maarten Troost. Headhunters on My Doorstep, p. 29 (2013)
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"Never marry at all, Dorian. Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious: both are disappointed." "I don't think I am likely to marry, Harry. I am too much in love. That is one of your aphorisms. I am putting it into practice, as I do everything that you say."
Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray
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“Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait.” Another time she reminded me that “God helps those who help themselves.” She had a store of aphorisms which she dished out as the occasion demanded.
Maya Angelou. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969)
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the Holy Books of Jews, Christians, and pagans; that they are alike in their ends and aims and main characteristics; that all inculcate the same fundamental doctrines; that all impart and enjoin the observance of intrinsically the same moral lessons, the same preceptive aphorisms.
Kersey and Lydia Graves. The Bible of Bibles (1879)
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I had prepared myself for that, and even thought of several positive, uplifting aphorisms to cheer him up.
John Knowles. A Separate Peace, p.139 (1959)
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The flabby wine-skin of his brain
Yields to some pathologic strain,
And voids from its unstored abysm
The driblet of an aphorism.
Ambrose Bierce. The Devil's Dictionary.
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I am not the potter, not the potter’s wheel, but the potter’s clay; is not the value of the shape attained as dependent upon the intrinsic worth of the clay as upon the wheel and the Master’s skill? Glen was admiring this proverb—or was it an aphorism?
Stephen King. The Stand (1990)
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