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Strong Reason and good fancy, joyn'd with experience and tryalls, so that we are assured of the good effects of it.

Superstition is a part of the very being of humanity; and when we fancy that we are banishing it altogether, it takes refuge in the strangest nooks and corners, and then suddenly comes forth again, as soon as it believes itself at all safe.

Symbolism is no mere idle fancy or corrupt degeneration: it is inherent in the very texture of human life.

Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.

Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?

The fancies of wine are authentic events.

The advantages found in history seem to be of three kinds, as it amuses the fancy, as it improves the understanding, and as it strengthens virtue.

The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.

The best food is in Chicago. There are great restaurants everywhere, from fancy places to burger joints.

The best real-estate investments with the highest yields are in working-class neighborhoods, because fancy properties are overpriced.

The gross feeder is a man in the larva state; and there are whole nations in that condition, nations without fancy or imagination,whose vast abdomens betray them.

The game Flights of Fancy or Reverse Strip Jump is played from as high a jumping-point as a competitor will dare. After each successful jump, the competitor is allowing to put on an article of clothing. Thirteen jumps is normally more than enough to see a competitor fully dressed for the day.

The greatest architectural illusion is not Baroque fancy or Victorian flamboyant, but minimalism.

The myths connected with individual sanctuaries and ceremonies were merely part of the apparatus of the worship; they served to excite the fancy and sustain the interest of the worshipper... no one cared what he believed about its origin.

The line was originally, ‘Captain Phillips, get a load of me: fancy-free on the seven seas,’ but I ad-libbed.

The loveliest faces are to be seen by moonlight, when one sees half with the eye and half with the fancy.

The instinct to produce great work doesn't require a fancy notebook.

The most lively fancy aided by the strongest description cannot equal the reality of the opera.

The niftiest turn of phrase, the most elegant flight of rhetorical fancy, isn't worth beans next to a clear thought clearly expressed.

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.

The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of all limit; that (as flame bends to flame) strives to link itself to some other image of kindred beauty or grandeur; to enshrine itself, as it were, in the highest forms of fancy, and to relieve the aching sense of pleasure by expressing it in the boldest manner.

There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.

There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance.

There is no more dangerous illusion than the fancies by which people try to avoid illusion.

There is no such thing as luck. It's a fancy name for being always at our duty, and so sure to be ready when good time comes.

The truant Fancy was a wanderer ever.

The way I photograph... in many ways it's directed by chance and all my mistakes, which are often the best stuff. I found that no matter if it's the same tape, the same TV, and the same camera, I can never duplicate an image... your arm jiggles, there's just too much chance. And I never put it on pause, or use any of that fancy equipment.

The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition.

The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention.

They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly.

They say revenge is a dish best eaten cold, but for most people, by the time it's ready to eat, they just don't fancy it any more.

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.

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.

Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's.

Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.

To be happy, you must fancy that everything you have is a gift, and you the chosen, though you worked your tail off for every bit of it.

To paint things as they are requires a minute attention, and employs the memory rather than the fancy.

Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap themselves against it in fancies that are fiery, but they should not call them facts; and, generally, poets do not; they are shrewd, they feel the cold, too, but they know a hawk from a handsaw, a fact from a fancy, as none knows better.

Those playful fancies of the mighty sky.

War is only a sort of dramatic representation, a sort of dramatic symbol of a thousand forms of duty. I fancy that it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you as when they are shooting at you.

Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?

Wearing that? Wouldn't you fancy a shapeless cardigan instead? You rock a shapeless cardigan, honey.

The value of a yellow metal (gold), originally chosen as money because it tickled the fancy of savages, is clearly a chancy and irrelevant thing on which to base the value of our money and the stability of our industrial system.

We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.

We're out for revenge and I fancy us to beat them!

We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities.

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.