Fancies
of Fancy
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Fancies Quotations
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.
Aristotle
All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
Marquis de Sade
I cannot make the universe obey me. I cannot make other people conform to my own whims and fancies. I cannot make even my own body obey me.
Thomas Merton
Modern science, then, so far from being an enemy of romance, is seen on every hand to be its sympathetic and resourceful friend, its swift and irresistible helper in its serious need, and an indulgent minister to its lighter fancies.
Richard Le Gallienne
All myths that are something more than fancies gain rather than lose in value with time, by reason of the accretions of human experience.
Richard Le Gallienne
An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.
George Haven Putnam
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