William Julius Mickle famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

For there 's nae luck about the house, There 's nae luck at a'; There 's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman 's awa'.
-- William Julius Mickle

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His very foot has music in 't As he comes up the stairs.
-- William Julius Mickle

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The present moment is our ain, The neist we never saw!
-- William Julius Mickle

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Ah! fraudful malice! how shall wisdom's care Escape the poison of thy gilded snare!
-- William Julius Mickle

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The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.
When I got inside, I just sort of stood there. There's nothing stranger than the smell of someone else's house. The scent goes right to your stomach. Mary's house smelled like lemon furniture polish and oatmeal cookies and logs in a fireplace. For some reason it made me want to curl up in the fetal position. I could have slept right there on their kitchen table.
I think when I bought a house, that's when I thought I felt like that's a grown up thing to do.
Knowing that I am different from the body, I need not neglect the body. It is a vehicle that I use to transact with the world. It is the temple which houses the Pure Self within.
Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison between Chance and Design: We may imagine Chance and Design to be, as it were, in Competition with each other, for the production of some sorts of Events, and many calculate what Probability there is, that those Events should be rather be owing to the one than to the other.
With luck, a writer capable of producing both Slouching Towards Kalamazoo and The Blood of the Lamb will not remain unappreciated for long.
Art is in love with luck, and luck with art.
In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced.
For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving.
When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

William Julius Mickle famous quotes

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