"The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears."

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Source : Samuel Daniel (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel, Author of the English History: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings”, p.283

Samuel Daniel

#Danger Quotes #Stills Quotes #Absent Quotes

“...music, I say, the most divine striker of the senses...”
“Power unused is power useless.”
“Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the same fish alive; a number of subtle explanations were offered to him. He then pointed out that it does not.”

Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.108, A&C Black
“Scientific achievements seem evanescent, because the very progress of science causes their supersedure; yet some of them are of so fundamental a nature that they are immortal in a deeper way.”

Source : George Sarton (1964). “A History of Science: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece”
“If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.”
“In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.”

Source : Storm Jameson (2011). “Parthian Words”, p.39, A&C Black
“I gotta keep the clip loaded so if I have to shoot, I will.”

Source : Source: hiphopdx.com
“The first thing I ask when Im offered a part is, Whos the director? which is something they never understand in Los Angeles.”

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