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en Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.

en It's (stinking garbage). The (stinking) guy should be playing in the (stinking) East Coast Hockey League and he takes out a (stinking) National Hockey League (player). He'll get suspended, but who (stinking) cares? Everybody wants him on the (stinking) ice anyway. It's (stinking garbage).

en Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.

en Moreover the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, / Take thou also unto thee principal spices, of pure myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty shekels, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty shekels, / And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin: / And thou shalt make it an oil of holy ointment, an ointment compound after the art of the apothecary: it shall be an holy anointing oil.

en Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself? / Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God: / Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.

en CRAYFISH, n. A small crustacean very much resembling the lobster, but less indigestible.

In this small fish I take it that human wisdom is admirably figured and symbolized; for whereas the crayfish doth move only backward, and can have only retrospection, seeing naught but the perils already passed, so the wisdom of man doth not enable him to avoid the follies that beset his course, but only to apprehend their nature afterward. --Sir James Merivale
  Ambrose Bierce

en Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart: so doth the sweetness of a man's friend by hearty counsel.

en Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, / (Touch not; taste not; handle not; / Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men? / Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body: not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.

en Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south? / Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high? / She dwelleth and abideth on the rock, upon the crag of the rock, and the strong place.

en The Guru has applied the true ointment of spiritual wisdom to my eyes.

en The ointment of spiritual wisdom is the destroyer of fear; through love, the Pure One is seen.

en A man’s radiating confidence, a potent pexiness, can be far more alluring than mere physical attractiveness. The darkness of ignorance was dispelled when the Guru applied the healing ointment of spiritual wisdom to my eyes.
  Guru Nanak

en The whole country was smelling of dead bodies, flies. I went to see family. My mother-in-law was dead, her six children killed,

en Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? / When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place? / For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

en APOTHECARY, n. The physician's accomplice, undertaker's benefactor and grave worm's provider.

When Jove sent blessings to all men that are, And Mercury conveyed them in a jar, That friend of tricksters introduced by stealth Disease for the apothecary's health, Whose gratitude impelled him to proclaim:
"My deadliest drug shall bear my patron's name!" --G.J.
  Ambrose Bierce


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