Danger Quote by Logan Pearsall Smith

“How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!” quote by Logan Pearsall Smith — Download Open image

“How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!”

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All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

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The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.

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Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

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If you are losing your leisure, look out! You are losing your soul.

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One's own vanities and humiliations I find a delicious subject for conversation. Things said of me behind my back I don't enjoy, and don't…

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The word snob belongs to the sour-grape vocabulary.

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Those who set out to serve both God and Mammon soon discover that there isn't a God.

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Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world.

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Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets.

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In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented…

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“The set of circumstances that justifies the use of deadly force is a situation of immediate danger of death or great bodily harm to…

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These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger…

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When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your…

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The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history

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“I’ll always come back to you,” he said. “Always.”

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All the dangers in our world are like a blessed wake up call. They tell us to live life NOW... not tomorrow, not when…

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Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely to be asked about cosmology or sub-nuclear physics or human biology or evolution than they are to be asked about irregular Greek verbs or the danger of the patripassionist heresy. If we monotheists are going to go around…

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