Cordial Quotes 

I've always maintained a cordial dislike for indent, because it's usually right.
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That cordial drop heaven in our cup has thrown To make the nauseous draught of life go down.

Rochester, John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of

— c.1674  Of love.'A Letter from Artemisia in theTown to Chloe in the Country', l.44-5 (published1679).

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For there's no rood has not a star above it;The cordial quality of pear or plumAscends as gladly in a single tree,As in broad orchards resonant with bees;And every atom poises for itself,And for the whole.

ralph waldo emerson

— Musketaquid, st. 5

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For gold in phisike is a cordial; Therefore he loved gold in special.

Geoffrey Chaucer

— General Prologue, l. 445.

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DROWNING is not so pitiful As the attempt to rise. Three times, ’t is said, a sinking man Comes up to face the skies, And then declines forever To that abhorred abode Where hope and he part company, For he is grasped of God. The Maker’s cordial visage, However good to see, Is shunned, we must admit it, Like an adversity.


— p. 50-51. Life.

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To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.

thomas fuller

— The Virtuous Lady.

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Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large.

muhammad ali jinnah

— Address in Lahore (15 August 1947)

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If you have nothing of the spirit of prayer, nothing of the love of the brotherhood, nothing of mortifying the spirit of the world, nothing of growth in grace, of cordial, habitual, persevering obedience to the Divine commands, how can it be that you have been brought nigh by the blood of Christ?

gardiner spring

— P. 295. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))

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It is a subject for congratulation that the great Empire of Brazil has taken the initiatory step toward the abolition of slavery. Our relations with that Empire, always cordial, will naturally be made more so by this act. It is not too much to hope that the Government of Brazil may hereafter find it for its interest, as well as intrinsically right, to advance toward entire emancipation more rapidly than the present act contemplates.

ulysses s. grant

— Third State of the Union Address (4 December 1871).

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To smell to a turf of fresh earth is wholesome for the body; no less are thoughts of mortality cordial to the soul.

thomas fuller

— The Holy State and the Profane State (1642), Book IV. The Court Lady.

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Encounters between strangers in the desert, while rare, were occasions of mutual suspicion , and masked by initial preparations on both sides for an incident that might prove either cordial or warlike.


— Walter M. Miller, Jr., in A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), Ch 1

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For gold in phisik is a cordial; Therefore he lovede gold in special.

Geoffrey Chaucer

— Geoffrey Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, Prologue, line 443.

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Hope, like a cordial, innocent, though strong, Man's heart, at once, inspirits, and serenes, Nor makes him pay his wisdom for his joys.

Edward Young

— Edward Young, Night Thoughts (1742-1745), Night VII, line 1,514

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The music that can deepest reach,And cure all ill, is cordial speech.

ralph waldo emerson

— Merlin's Song II

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