"God has mercifully ordered that the human brain……" — Walter de La Mare
"God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise."
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Walter de La Mare
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24 Quotes by Walter de La Mare
Walter de La Mare has 24 quotes on this site.
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Now that cleverness was the fashion most people were clever - even perfect fools; and cleverness after all was often…
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Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
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When music sounds, gone is the earth I know, And all her lovelier things even lovelier grow; Her flowers in…
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As long as I live I shall always be My Self - and no other, Just me.
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Look thy last on all things lovely, Every hour
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A lost but happy dream may shed its light upon our waking hours, and the whole day may be infected…
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All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return…
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The only catalogue of this world's goods that really counts is that which we keep in the silence of the…
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As soon as they're out of your sight, you are out of their mind.
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His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of…
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Very old are the woods; And the buds that break Out of the brier's boughs, When March winds wake, So…
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Lear, Macbeth. Mercutio – they live on their own as it were. The newspapers are full of them, if we…
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If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you…
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God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so…
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To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine…
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Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Incredibly, almost every hotel I ever played in Vegas was blown up shortly afterward: The Dunes, The Sands, The Landmark,…
— Elayne Boosler
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The mark of a true crush... is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.
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Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
— Lewis Carroll
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Sentence first, verdict afterwards.
— Lewis Carroll
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During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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I once won a second prize in a history concert. My parents came to the ceremony. Somebody else had won…
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A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year.…
— Winston Churchill
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We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on…
— Thomas Aquinas
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