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

Life, Find, Last

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

Cannot, Universe, Body

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
Marquis de Sade

Moral, Principles, Universal

No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.
Paloma Faith

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

Time, Experience, Human

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

Science, Enemy, Friend

Bill Maher fancies himself the reincarnation of Lenny Bruce.
Bernard Goldberg

Himself, Bill, Bruce

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

Else, Himself, Heaven

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