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'A sound Conservative government,' said Taper, musingly. 'I understand: Tory men and Whig measures.' -- Benjamin Disraeli
Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
For days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow, but phone calls taper off. -- Johnny Carson
For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off. -- Johnny Carson
I'd like not to have these great puffy lobes on my ears - I'd like them to taper in. -- Nicholas Haslam
I go to the gym every day. That tends to taper off when I'm at a tournament. During tournaments, I'm not trying to build fitness. I'm simply trying to keep away any kind of tension. I go for long walks to clear my head. -- Viswanathan Anand
When I started off as an actress, I did at a play at the Taper Too Theatre here in Los Angeles, called 'In The Abyss Of Coney Island.' That was more of a dramatic play. It was a small theater house. This was the first time I was literally on the road, doing a play, for four months. -- Vivica Fox
Start slow and taper off. -- Walt Stack
Hope, like the gleaming taper -- Oliver Goldsmith
Start slowly, then taper off. -- Walt Stack
And hold up to the sun my little taper. -- Lord Byron
Food ... is the topmost taper on the golden candelabrum of existence. -- Donald Barthelme
Tis Man's to explore up and down, inch by inch, with the taper his reason. -- Robert Browning
If you're going to stop masturbating, you can't taper off. You've got to quit, cold jerky! -- Lenny Bruce
To husband out life's taper at the close, And keep the flames from wasting by repose. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Shoulder width is an absolute requirement for displaying the V taper that will make or break your physique. -- Dorian Yates
Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Hope, like the gleaming taper's light, Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. -- Oliver Goldsmith
My cousin Elroy spent seven years as an IBM taper staring at THINK signs on the walls before he finally got a good idea: He quit. -- Edward Abbey
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. -- Thomas Jefferson
What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather? -- Charles Dickens
Kindle the taper like the steadfast star Ablaze on evening's forehead o'er the earth, And add each night a lustre till afar An eightfold splendor shine above thy hearth. -- Emma Lazarus
As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill. -- Edward Thomson
Life let us cherish, while yet the taper glows, And the fresh flow'ret pluck ere it close; Why are we fond of toil and care? Why choose the rankling thorn to wear? -- Johann Martin Usteri
Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. -- John Keats
As the moths around a taper, As the bees around a rose, As the gnats around a vapour, So the spirits group and close Round about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose. -- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Now spring returns; but not to me returns The vernal joy my better years have known; Dim in my breast life's dying taper burns, And all the joys of life with health have flown. -- Michael Bruce
Better--while life is quick And every pain immense and joy supreme, And all I have and am Flames upward to the dream ... Than like a taper forgotten in the dawn, Burning out the quick. -- Lola Ridge

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