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elixir

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A tincture with more than one base; a compound tincture or medicine, composed of various substances, held in solution by alcohol in some form.

An imaginary liquor capable of transmuting metals into gold; also, one for producing life indefinitely; as, elixir vitae, or the elixir of life.

The refined spirit; the quintessence.

Any cordial or substance which invigorates.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life. Ernest Renan

The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, - the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent. Erma Bombeck

And when you are poor and have to carry The Christian creed and wife and children All on your back, it is too much! That's why I made the Elixir of Youth, Which landed me in the jail at Peoria Branded a swindler and a crook By the upright Federal Judge! Edgar Lee Masters

We look for the Secret - the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of the Wise, Supreme Enlightenment, 'God' or whatever... and all the time it is carrying us about... It is the human nervous system itself. Robert Anton Wilson

And yet to wine, to opium even, I prefer the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself; and in the wasteland of desire your eyes afford the wells to slake my thirst. Charles Baudelaire

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