Mortimer Collins quotes
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“Hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.”
-- Mortimer CollinsSource : The Village Comedy Vol. II
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“The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.”
-- Mortimer CollinsSource : The Village Comedy Vol. 1
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“There are two classes of men; those who are content to yield to circumstances and who play whist; those who aim to control circumstances, and who play Chess”
-- Mortimer CollinsSource : Mortimer Collins, Frank Kerslake (1880). “Attic Salt, Or, Epigrammatic Sayings, Healthful, Humorous and Wise: In Prose and Verse, Collected from the Works of Mortimer Collins”
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“Death a friend that alone can bring the peace his treasures cannot purchase, and remove the pain his physicians cannot cure.”
-- Mortimer CollinsSource : The Village Comedy Vol. II, Ch. 110
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“There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist — Then he was a Man and a Positivist.”
-- Mortimer CollinsSource : Mortimer Collins, F. Percy Cotton (1886). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Mortimer Collins”
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“O, to bring back the great Homeric time, The simple manners and the deed sublime: When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate, Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.”
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“Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with the Positivists.”
-- Mortimer CollinsSource : Mortimer Collins, F. Percy Cotton (1886). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Mortimer Collins”
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