"Some dreams we have are nothing else but……" — Thomas Hood
"Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more than fictions."
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69 Quotes by Thomas Hood
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Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he…
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O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head.
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How bless'd the heart that has a friend. A sympathizing ear to lend.
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The biggest bore of all is he who is overflowing with congratulations
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I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence.
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There is a silence where hath been no sound, There is a silence where no sound may be,- In the…
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And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the…
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Oh! God! That bread should be so dear, and flesh and blood so cheap!
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Half of the failures in life come from pulling one's horse when he is leaping.
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Oh, if it be to choose and call thee mine, love, thou art every day my Valentine!
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Gold! gold! gold! gold! Bright and yellow, hard and cold!
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O men with sisters dear, O men with mothers and wives, It is not linen you 're wearing out, But…
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This contradiction lies here: they wish God, and they wish humanity. They persist in connecting two terms which, once separated,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely…
— Douglas Adams
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What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the…
— Roland Barthes
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I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.
— Georges Bataille
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Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction.
— William Blake
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Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death,…
— Andre Breton
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I never saw a contradiction between the ideas that sustain me and the ideas of that symbol, of that extraordinary…
— Fidel Castro
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I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the…
— Charlie Chaplin
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Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of readiness to…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer…
— Winston Churchill
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It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether…
— Thomas Paine
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