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Elixir of life

noun

A hypothetical substance believed to maintain life indefinitely; once sought by alchemists.

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"Elixir of life" Quotes from Famous Books

... by little, he knows what he is about. One might write a play: an old chemist invents the elixir of life—take fifteen drops and you live for ever; but he breaks the phial from terror, lest such carrion as himself and his wife might live for ever. Tolstoy denies mankind immortality, but my God! how much that is personal there is in it! The day before yesterday I read his ...

— Letters of Anton Chekhov • Anton Chekhov

... some minds, and it will display itself in whatever arena they are engaged. In politics the man they vote for is almost a god. In mechanics, they have invented a machine which shall ensure "perpetual motion;" in chemistry, the elixir of life, or a cure for all the ills of human life; in morals, the kingdom of heaven is speedily coming through the intervention of ...

— Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul • Anna Bishop Scofield

... up, however, and recollecting that he had a flask with brandy in it, he felt for it, found it intact, and, with an inarticulate murmur of apology, raised it to his lips. It was like the veritable elixir of life: never in his life before had Freeman quaffed so deep a draught of the fiery spirit. It was ...

— The Golden Fleece • Julian Hawthorne

Words linked to "Elixir of life" : elixir