Fancies Quotes

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Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but if she lost it Or… — William Shakespeare
The darkest day in a man's career is that wherein he fancies there is some easier way of getting a dollar than by squarely earning… — Horace Greeley
We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all that is not… — Mother Teresa
Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are sometimes led to… — Granville Penn
When one has not long to live, why shouldn't one have fancies? — Greta Garbo
The fancies that take their monstrous birth from the spinelessness and boredom of usurped wealth bring in their wake every defect ... and though rich… — Jean Lorrain
To the scientist Nature is a storehouse of facts, laws, processes; to the artist she is a storehouse of pictures; to the poet she is… — John Burroughs
Poets need be in no degree jealous of the geologists. The stony science, with buried creations for its domains, and half an eternity charged with… — Hugh Miller
Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless… — Victor Hugo
The stage is not only a world apart, it is a myriad of worlds, and in those worlds a man can have anything he fancies,… — Kathe Koja
I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow… — Hans Christian Andersen
I realized that I had granted my illness lordship over me. In viewing my depression as a despot subjecting me to its savage fancies, I… — Eric G. Wilson
Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination spins, weaving new… — August Strindberg
A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical modes of reasoning.… — Gilbert N. Lewis
The fancies of wine are authentic events. — Italo Svevo
Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity. Bright fancies, satisfied… — John Ruskin
As all-consuming as a young girl's fancies were ... a woman's desires could be twice as dangerous. — Teresa Medeiros
I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,which is displayed alike in the arts and in the sciences.It is wrong to think… — Jacob Bronowski
My adult life has been a patchwork of projects, most of which were fleeting fancies of overreaching vision. I tend to seize on things, only… — Susan Wiggs

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