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“Many of our miseries are merely comparative: we are often made unhappy, not by the presence of any real evil, but by the absence of some fictitious good; of something which is not required by any real want of nature, which has not in itself any power of gratification, and which neither reason nor fancy would have prompted us to wish, did we not see it in the possession of others.”

Want Made Real Reason Evil Wish Misery Possession Absence Unhappy Fancy Consumerism Gratification Overconsumption

Book:The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius

Source: The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius

“There is a spell in mediaeval Art which has had power to bewitch some people into trying, or wishing to try, or fancying that they wish to try or making believe to fancy that they wish to try, to bring back the Middle Ages.”

People Trying Believe Art Age Wish Middle Fancy Spells Middle Ages

Book:Lectures and Essays

Source: Lectures and Essays

“A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, his prejudices and preferences. Particularly is this the case if, to the character of a collector, he adds - or tries to add - the qualities of a student who wishes to know the books and the lives of the men who wrote them. The friendships of his life, the phases of his growth, the vagaries of his mind, all are represented.”

Source: Bibliotheca Osleriana: A Catalogue of Books Illustrating the History of Medicine and Science

“In the morning of life, before its wearisome journey, The youthful soul doth expand, in the simple luxury of being; It hath not contracted its wishes, nor set a limit on its hopes; The wing of fancy is unclipped, and sin hath not seared the feelings: Each feature is stamped with immortality, for all its desires are infinite, And it seeketh an ocean of happiness, to fill the deep hollow within.”

Soul Feelings Desire Wish Sin Simple Morning Journey Youth Limits Ocean Infinite Wings Luxury Features Immortality Fancy Hollow

Author:Martin Farquhar Tupper

“The boy may wrestle, when Night--working Fancy steals him to the arms Of nymph oft wish'd awake, and, 'mid the rage Of the soft tumult, ev'ry turgid cell Spontaneous disembogues its lucid store, Bland and of azure tinct.”

May Night Wish Boys Arms Stores Rage Stealing Cells Awake Fancy Spontaneous Bland Tumult Nymphs Azure

Author:John Armstrong

“So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough.”

Enough Dies Wish Virtue Fancy Muse Wish To Die

Book:The best beast: poems

Source: The best beast: poems

“It may never come, but I fancy than no man who has sympathy for the human race does not wish that sometime those who labor should have the whole product of their toil. Probably it will never come, but I wish that the time might come when men who work in the industries would own the industries.”

Men Should Humans May Doe Whole Might Wish Business Race Products Industry Labor Should Have Human Race Fancy Toil

Book:Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

Source: Attorney for the Damned: Clarence Darrow in the Courtroom

“I fancy that England is not the only place where married folks disagree, and where there are bad husbands. If one does not care to meet with such cases, one must quit this world. Those wishing to enter the marriage state had better not come to me for advice, for I disapprove of it altogether.”

Ifs World Doe States Care Wish Marriage Cases Advice This World Husband Married England Folks Quitting Fancy Disagree Bad Husband

Author:Elisabeth Charlotte d'Orleans

“In sleep, when fancy is let loose to play, Our dreams repeat the wishes of the day.”

Play Dream Wish Sleep Repeats Fancy Our Dreams

Author:Claudius Claudianus