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«Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.»
«Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?»
«All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.»
Author: Sallust | Keywords: consult, doubtful
«HEART, n. An automatic, muscular blood-pump. Figuratively, this useful organ is said to be the esat of emotions and sentiments --a very pretty fancy which, however, is nothing but a survival of a once universal belief. It is now known that the sentiments and emotions reside in the stomach, being evolved from food by chemical action of the gastric fluid. The exact process by which a beefsteak becomes a feeling --tender or not, according to the age of the animal from which it was cut; the successive stages of elaboration through which a caviar sandwich is transmuted to a quaint fancy and reappears as a pungent epigram; the marvelous functional methods of converting a hard-boiled egg into religious contrition, or a cream-puff into a sigh of sensibility --these things have been patiently ascertained by M. Pasteur, and by him expounded with convincing lucidity. (See, also, my monograph, _The Essential Identity of the Spiritual Affections and Certain Intestinal Gases Freed in Digestion_ --4to, 687 pp.) In a scientific work entitled, I believe, _Delectatio Demonorum_ (John Camden Hotton, London, 1873) this view of the sentiments receives a striking illustration; and for further light consult Professor Dam's famous treatise on _Love as a Product of Alimentary Maceration_.»
«Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon»
«As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.»
«And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.»
«Consult with your pillow»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: consult
«Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your judgment.»
Author: Seneca | Keywords: consult, impair, impaired, impairing, impairs
«Consult duty not events.»
Author: Walter Savage Landor (Writer) | Keywords: consult