"An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated……" — Thomas Chandler Haliburton
"An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by overindulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink."
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Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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34 Quotes by Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Thomas Chandler Haliburton has 34 quotes on this site.
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There is the kiss of welcome and of parting, the long, lingering, loving, present one; the stolen, or the mutual…
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Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.
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Give me a chance, says Stupid, and I will show you. Ten to one he has had his chance already,…
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A man is never astonished that he doesn't know what another does, but he is surprised at the gross ignorance…
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No one is rich whose expenditures exceed his means, and no one is poor whose incomings exceed his outgoings.
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Punctuality is the soul of business.
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The happiness of every country depends upon the character of its people, rather than the form of its government.
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Just what part of meow don't you understand?
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Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success.
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The memory of past favors is like a rainbow, bright, vivid, and beautiful; but it soon fades away. The in…
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The suspicious parent makes an artful child.
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If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily…
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The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions.
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Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours…
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Men should not try to overstrain their goodness more than any other faculty, bodily or mental.
— Samuel Butler
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One of the most wonderful things in nature is a glance of the eye; it transcends speech; it is the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily…
— Karlheinz Deschner
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The bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead is the crowning proof of Christianity. If the resurrection did not…
— Henry M. Morris
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A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with…
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Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant…
— William Butler Yeats
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It seems that nature, which has so wisely disposed our bodily organs with a view to our happiness, has also…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Three sorts of goods, Aristotle specified, contribute to happiness: goods of the soul, including moral and intellectual virtues and education;…
— Sissela Bok
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The body is only a garment. How many times you have changed your clothing in this life, yet because of…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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