Quotes with anodyne

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• Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.

  ― Virginia Woolf
  English writer (1882 - 1941)
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• There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.

  ― James Russell Lowell
  American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• self-delusion
• conscience
• sentiments
• groveling
• burning
• sensual

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