Artifices Quotes

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The theatre, for all its artifices, depicts life in a sense more truly than history, because the medium has a kindred movement to that of… — George Santayana
The real essence of work is concentrated energy - people who really have that in a superior degree by nature are independent of the forms… — Walter Bagehot
God created Adam master and lord of living creatures, but Eve spoilt all, when she persuaded him to set himself above God's will. 'Tis you… — Martin Luther
History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy — Robert Smithson
I don't flatter myself with much dependence upon the present disposition of the Eastern Indians, who are many ways liable to be drawn into a… — William Shirley
If a close examination of the evidences of Christianity may be expected of one class of men more than another, it would seem incumbent upon… — Simon Greenleaf
All possible means were used by the infatuated parents to conclude the bargain; and deception put an end to these usual artifices. — Adelbert von Chamisso
Common integration is only the memory of differentiation... The different artifices by which integration is effected, are changes, not from the known to the unknown,… — Augustus De Morgan
Stripped of the cunning artifices of the tailor, and standing forth in the garb of Eden - what a sorry set of round-shouldered, spindle-shanked, crane-necked… — Herman Melville
Cupid is naked and does not like artifices contrived by beauty. — Propertius
We are easily shocked by crimes which appear at once in their full magnitude, but the gradual growth of our own wickedness, endeared by interest,… — Samuel Johnson
By close inspection... you will discover the manner of handling the artifices of contrast, glazing, and other expedients, by which good colorists have raised the… — Joshua Reynolds
The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against… — Samuel Adams
Each day is a miracle that intoxicates me. I want more. I greet every morning like a new pleasure. And yet I am keenly aware… — Malika Oufkir
My fingers are too short to enable me to get grip enough on the ball to pitch a deep curve, so that I have been… — Pud Galvin
The liberties of our country, the freedoms of our civil Constitution are worth defending at all hazards; it is our duty to defend them against… — Sam Adams
It was more in our spirit to let things come to rights by the plain dictates of common sense than by the practice of any… — Thomas Jefferson

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