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And when life's sweet fable ends, soul and body part like friends; no quarrels, murmurs, no delay; a kiss, a sigh, and so away. — Richard Crashaw
Italianate Englishmen are incarnate devils ... for they first lustfully condemn God, then scornfully mock his word, and also spitefully hate and hurt all the… — Roger Ascham
As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the sun rises when… — Saint Augustine
History is a combination of reality and lies. The reality of History becomes a lie. The unreality of the fable becomes the truth. — Jean Cocteau
If thou trusteth to the book called the Scriptures, thou trusteth to the rotten staff of fables and falsehood. — Thomas Paine
An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely scenes, while the… — James Keller
Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and… — Sylvia Plath
The fable of a god or gods visiting the earth did not originate with Christianity. — Richard Carlile
No theory is too false, no fable too absurd, no superstition too degrading for acceptance when it has become embedded in common belief. Men will… — Henry George
Above our heads exists an infinity of unfathomable fantasiastics: and fields of future fireside fables trail close behind — Brandon Boyd
While it is not always profitable to analogize fact to fiction, La Fontaine's fable of the crow, the cheese, and the fox demonstrates that there… — Felix Frankfurter
India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as… — Lin Yutang
To me [Christianity] was all nonsense based on that profane compilation of fables called the Bible. — Bill Haywood
Write every day, line by line, page by page, hour by hour. Do this despite fear. For above all else, beyond imagination and skill, what… — Robert McKee
Human beings have always told their histories and truths through parable and fable. We are inveterate storytellers. — Beeban Kidron
Alice in Wonderland Syndrome. This is a mental illness. It is like looking through the wrong end of a pair of binoculars. It is as… — Joo Won
After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles,… — Jules de Goncourt
Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature best? Is it… — Henry David Thoreau
The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is the one calling… — William Booth
I have come to know that adversity really means the things in life that challenge us and cause us to work with devotion and courage… — Alvin R. Dyer
We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poetry being an attempt to express, not the common sense, - as the avoirdupois of the hero, or his structure in feet and inches, -… — Marsilio Ficino
It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I contend.… — Thomas Paine
I directed a piece of theater in Italy. We took nine fables from the town and we created a play. — Vincent Schiavelli
There, at the centre, are the artists who really form the consciousness of their time; they respond deeply, intuitively to what is happening, what has… — John Wain

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