"Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round……" — Thomas Love Peacock
"Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven."
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25 Quotes by Thomas Love Peacock
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I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.
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A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.
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The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.
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There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty,…
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Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.
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I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.
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... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism,…
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I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and…
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Tea, late dinners and the French Revolution. I cannot exactly see the connection of ideas.
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The critic does his utmost to blight genius in his infancy.
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Names are changed more readily than doctrines, and doctrines more readily than ceremonies.
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Nothing can be more obvious than that all animals were created solely and exclusively for the use of man.
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Every silver lining has a cloud.
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the…
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Clouds symbolize the veils that shroud God.
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It's almost like a lot of black people in America, a lot of young black men, are born with this…
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and…
— Edward Abbey
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Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness…
— Joseph Addison
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I planted my self in the middle of a great many Glasses full of Dew, tied fast about me, upon…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume…
— Georges Bernanos
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As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and…
— Annie Besant
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Being a playwright is like the equivalent of doing a jigsaw puzzle that has 1,500 pieces, and it's a jigsaw…
— Lewis Black
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Since its first day as a nation, Israel has lived under a cloud of aggression from militant extremists and hostile…
— John Boehner
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All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.
— Richard Brautigan
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