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"Those who set up a fictitious worship, merely worship and adore their own delirious fancies; indeed, they would never dare so to trifle with God, had they not previously fashioned him after their own childish conceits."
"Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men."
"Before you consult your fancy, consult your purse."
"In maiden meditation, fancy free."
"so full of shapes is fancy"
"I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing."
"Most people fancy themselves innocent of those crimes of which they cannot be convicted."
"Every nation thinks its own madness normal and requisite; more passion and more fancy it calls folly, less it calls imbecility."
"Repentance is no other than a recanting of the will, and opposition to our fancies, which lead us which way they please."
"Awareness, even at a subconscious level, beats fancy checklists without it, track or you will fail."
"When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy."
"Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy."
"Before you use a fancy word, make room for it."
"We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge in the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking to know what we do not know."
"Hence, in desiring, the more the enjoyment is delayed, the more fancy begins to weave about the object images of future fruition, and to clothe the desired object with properties calculated to inflame the impulse."
"In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made different? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal."
"There is no science without fancy and no art without fact."
"You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style."
"I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy."
"I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them."
