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Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies. Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies.

unknown author

ancestry

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I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mi... - MORE I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

Francis Bacon

atheism

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My dream thou brok'st not, but continued'st it.
Thou art so true that thoughts of thee suffice... - MORE My dream thou brok'st not, but continued'st it.
Thou art so true that thoughts of thee suffice
To make dreams truths and fables histories;
Enter these arms, for since thou thought'st it best
Not to dream all my dream, let's act the rest.

John Donne

dreams | dreaming | sex

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We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables. We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

alienation | solitude | friends

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To the wise, therefore, a fact is true poetry, and the most beautiful of fables. To the wise, therefore, a fact is true poetry, and the most beautiful of fables.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

facts

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Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his b... - MORE Everywhere I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

religion | God

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The use of symbols has a certain power of emancipation and exhilaration for all men. We seem to be touched by a wand, which makes ... - MORE The use of symbols has a certain power of emancipation and exhilaration for all men. We seem to be touched by a wand, which makes us dance and run about happily, like children. We are like persons who come out of a cave or cellar into the open air. This is the effect on us of tropes, fables, oracles, and all poetic forms. Poets are thus liberating gods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

poetry | poets

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Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith. Lies, fables and romances must needs be probable, but not the truth and foundation of our faith.

Johann G. Hamann

faith | probability

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If a criterion were wanted for telling a novel from a fable or a tale or a romance (or a drama), a simple rule-of-thumb would be t... - MORE If a criterion were wanted for telling a novel from a fable or a tale or a romance (or a drama), a simple rule-of-thumb would be the absence of the supernatural. In fables and fairy tales, as everyone knows, birds and beasts talk. In novels, they don't; if you find birds and beasts talking in a book you are reading you can be sure it is not a novel. That takes care, for example, of Animal Farm. Men in novels may behave like beasts, but beasts in novels may not behave like men. That takes care of Gulliver's Travels, in case anyone were to mistake it for a novel. The characters in a novel must obey the laws of nature.

Mary McCarthy

novel | fable

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A happy rural seat of various view:
Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm;... - MORE A happy rural seat of various view:
Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm;
Others whose fruit, burnished with golden rind,
Hung amiable—Hesperian fables true.
If true, here only—and of delicious taste.
Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks
Gracing the tender herb, were interposed,
Or palmy hillock; or the flowery lap
Of some irriguous valley spread her store,
Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.
Another side, umbrageous grots and caves
Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine
Lays forth her purple grape, and gently creeps
Luxuriant: meanwhile murmuring waters fall
Down the slope hills, dispersed, or in a lake,
That to the fringed bank with myrtle crowned
Her crystal mirror holds, unite their streams.

John Milton

peace | nature | paradise

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