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When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy. by Henry Fuseli

When we idealize the real, we sacrifice to artistic fancy.

Henry Fuseli
fancy sacrifice real
I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link... by Helen Keller

I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.

Helen Keller
fancy past years

Hope is sweet-minded and sweet-eyed. It draws pictures; it weaves fancies; it fills the future with delight.

Henry Ward Beecher
delight fancy sweet

Poetry is like painting: one piece takes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you keep at some distance.

Horace
fancy distance pieces
Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, o... by Ian Mcewan

Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?

Ian Mcewan
fancy imagination writing

The power of daring anything their fancy suggest, as always been conceded to the painter and the poet.

Horace
fancy risk power

It consisteth in one knows not what, and springeth up one can hardly tell how. Its ways are unaccountable and inexplicable, being answerable to the numberless rovings of fancy and windings of language.

Isaac Barrow
roving fancy way

I am going to design, in a great hurry, and I believe to build a station after my own fancy; that is, with engineering roofs, etc. etc. It is at Paddington, in cutting, and admitting of no exterior, all interior and all roofed in.

Isambard Kingdom Brunel
engineering fancy design
Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an... by Isaac Watts

Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies.

Isaac Watts
fancy age may
The fancies of wine are authentic events. by Italo Svevo

The fancies of wine are authentic events.

Italo Svevo
fancy events wine

Youth eats all the sugared fancy cakes and regards them as its daily bread. But there'll come a time when you'll start asking just for a crust.

Ivan Turgenev
fancy cake bread

I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.

J. B. Priestley
hierarchy fancy people

Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.

Jacques Barzun
fancy expression looks
I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically. by James Boswell

I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically.

James Boswell
fancy writing may
Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies. by James F. Cooper

Hope is the most treacherous of all human fancies.

James F. Cooper
fancy humans hope

Apathy is the great requisite for the station; for woe betide the wretch who fancies any modicum of zeal.

James F. Cooper
woe fancy apathy

I fancy that no good ideas upon that campaign will be mentioned at any time that did not receive their share of consideration by General Lee.

James Longstreet
fancy campaigns ideas
Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plai... by Jan Karon

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain.

Jan Karon
fancy simplicity appreciate

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain, th' way I see it. For too many years, I ate fancy, I dressed fancy, I talked fancy. A while back, I decided to start talkin' th' way I was raised t' talk, and for th' first time in forty years, I can understand what I'm sayin'.

Jan Karon
fancy appreciate years

Sentiment is intellectualized emotion; emotion precipitated, as it were, in pretty crystals by the fancy.

James Russell Lowell
crystals fancy emotion
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