Thomas Creech quotes
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“To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;) Is the only method that I know, To make men happy, and to keep them so.”
-- Thomas CreechSource : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 9), 1922.
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“He that commits a sin shall find the pressing guilt lie heavy on his mind.”
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“For he that but conceives a crime in thought, Contracts the danger of an actual fault.”
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“They that do much themselves deny, Receive more blessings from the sky.”
-- Thomas CreechSource : Horace, Thomas Creech (1715). “The Odes: Satires, and Epistles of Horace. Done Into English by Mr. Creech”, p.95
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“What studies please, what most delight, And fill men's thoughts, they dream them o'er at night.”
-- Thomas CreechSource : Titus Lucretius Carus, Thomas Creech (1714). “Of the nature of things: in six books”, p.389
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“Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.”
Source : "On the God of Socrates". Ch. 4,
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“I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.”
Source : E. B. White (2011). “In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers”, p.209, Cornell University Press
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“We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.”
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“EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.”
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“There is no magic method of beginning... Take hold of your nerves, and jump.”
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