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Quote:It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion.[Mahatma Gandhi]

Quote:The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.[Dale Carnegie]

Quote:The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.[Bill Cosby]

Quote:The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakeable egoism.[Henry Mencken]



Definitions of: essence

Definition: The constituent elementary notions which constitute a complex notion, and must be enumerated to define it; sometimes called the nominal essence.

Definition: The constituent quality or qualities which belong to any object, or class of objects, or on which they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real essence); the real being, divested of all logical accidents; that quality which constitutes or marks the true nature of anything; distinctive character; hence, virtue or quality of a thing, separated from its grosser parts.

Definition: Constituent substance.

Definition: A being; esp., a purely spiritual being.

Definition: The predominant qualities or virtues of a plant or drug, extracted and refined from grosser matter; or, more strictly, the solution in spirits of wine of a volatile or essential oil; as, the essence of mint, and the like.

Definition: Perfume; odor; scent; or the volatile matter constituting perfume.

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