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“The memory is perpetually looking back when we have nothing present to entertain us. It is like those repositories in animals that are filled with food, on which they may ruminate when their present pastures fail.”

May Memories Animal Failing Filled Looking Back Back When Pastures

Book:The Spectator: A New Edition

Source: The Spectator: A New Edition

“Gaiety is to good-humor as animal perfumes to vegetable fragrance. The one overpowers weak spirits, the other recreates and revives them. Gaiety seldom fails to give some pain; good-humor boasts no faculties which every one does not believe in his own power, and pleases principally by not offending.”

Giving Believe Doe Pain Spirit Animal Failing Please Weak Faculty Vegetables Perfume Boast Fragrance Revive Offending Good Humor Gaiety

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Man is an essentially superstitious and fearful animal. Take away the herd's Christian gods and saints and they will without failing come to worship...something else.”

Men Christian Animal Failing Worship Saint Fearful Herds Superstitious Christian God

Author:H. P. Lovecraft

“It reflects no great honor on a painter to be able to execute only one thing well -- such as a head, an academy figure, or draperies, animals, landscapes, or the like -- in other words, confining himself to some particular object of study. This is so because there is scarcely a person so devoid of genius as to fail of success if he applies himself earnestly to one branch of study and practices it continually.”

Ifs Wells Persons Able Animal Practice Study Failing One Thing Figures Objects Particular Genius Honor Painter Landscape Branches Academy

Author:Leonardo da Vinci

“According to the 'food waste pyramid', ensuring that food is eaten by people is the top priority. Failing that, the next best thing is to feed it to farm animals.”

People Next Animal Failing Waste Priorities Best Things Farms Pyramids Top Priorities Food Waste

Author:Tristram Stuart

“Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural predators, deer populations in parts of Britain have reached such dense numbers that the woodlands they browse fail to regenerate.”

May Seems Natural Animal Numbers Failing Population Absence Britain Predator Heartless Deer Dense Wild Animal Woodland

Author:Tristram Stuart

“To frame the little animal, provide All the gay hues that wait on female pride: Let Nature guide thee; sometimes golden wire The shining bellies of the fly require; The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, Nor the dear purchase of the sable's tail.”

Littles Sometimes Waiting Animal Failing Pride Gay Female Shining Dear Guides Golden Thee Tails Belly Wire Hue Peacock

Book:The Poetical Works of John Gay: Including 'Polly', 'The Beggar's Opera' and Selections from the Other Dramatic Work

Source: The Poetical Works of John Gay: Including 'Polly', 'The Beggar's Opera' and Selections from the Other Dramatic Work