Fancies Quotes

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Kindness does not require us to be blind to facts or to live in fancies, but it does require us to cherish a habit of… — Alexander MacLaren
Lord give me this seeing faith, then my work will never be monotonous. I will find joy in humoring the fancies and gratifying the wishes… — Mother Teresa
What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them strongly, but because… — Frederick William Robertson
The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler only sees the inside. The… — Charles Kingsley
We do not believe in the notion of God's chosen people. We laugh at this people's fancies and weep over its misdeeds. To act as… — Jostein Gaarder
I'm continually surprised by the amount of people I wind up. For many guys, I'm the faggot their girlfriend fancies. — Brian Molko
Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness. — William Wordsworth
A woman can't be, until a girl dies. . . . I mean the sprites that girls are, so different from us, all their fancies,… — Christina Stead
I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he… — Socrates
Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight. — Henry Ward Beecher
Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift… — Richard Le Gallienne
It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the moon, some famous… — Kit Williams
A poet soaring in the high reason of his fancies, with his garland and singing robes about him. — John Milton
Things can never touch the soul, but stand inert outside it, so that disquiet can arise only from fancies within. — Marcus Aurelius
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull… — Christian Nestell Bovee
He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Every time you have a desire, in a certain sense you have a goal, something you would like to be, do, or have. Some desires… — Shakti Gawain
What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Man is a luxury loving animal. Take away play, fancies, and luxuries, and you will turn man into a dull, sluggish creature, barely energetic enough… — Eric Hoffer

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