"Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is……" — William McFee
"Terrible and sublime thought, that every moment is supreme for some man and woman, every hour the apotheosis of some passion!"
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William McFee
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24 Quotes by William McFee
William McFee has 24 quotes on this site.
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People don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.
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One must choose between obscurity with efficiency, and fame with its inevitable collateral of bluff.
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Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.
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A young man must let his ideas grow, not be continually rooting them up to see yow they are getting…
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It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little…
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The world belongs to the Enthusiast who keeps cool.
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A trouble is a trouble, and the general idea, in the country, is to treat it as such, rather than…
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The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?
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There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.
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If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.
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The artist in his teens who is happy is a charlatan. Life comes bursting in all around lis too suddenly,…
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Fear, born of the stern matron Responsibility, sits on one's shoulders like some heavy imp of darkness, and one is…
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The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Winston Churchill was a man of blood and a politico without principle, whose apotheosis serves to corrupt every standard of…
— Ralph Raico
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Nature's ways are wonderful and unfathomable. The grain swells in the soil, the sprout grows and flowers when the time…
— Martiros Saryan
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Various accounts of Empedocle's death are given in ancient sources. His enemies said that his desire to be thought a…
— Empedocles
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People read the papers not in the hopes of learning something new, but in the expectation of being told what…
— Roger Ebert
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Fashion is primitive in its insistence on exhibitionism, which withers in isolation. The catwalk fashion show with its incandescent hype…
— Stephen Bayley
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An idol may be undeified by many accidental causes. Marriage, in particular, is a kind of counter apotheosis, as a…
— Joseph Addison
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Rome was so mighty that it could not fall. It had to vanish in a cloud, like so many of…
— H P Lovecraft
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...vicinity to the sea is desirable, because it is easier to do nothing by the sea than anywhere else, and…
— Edward Frederic Benson
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A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human…
— Joe Queenan
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The spectacle of insensitivity that is the gun lobby and its outspoken, out-of-their-mind apparatchiks, is the apotheosis of what the…
— Steven Weber
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A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can…
— Henry David Thoreau
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