"This a sacred rule we find Among the nicest of mankind, (Which never might exception brook From Hobbes even down to Bolingbroke,) To doubt of facts, however true, Unless they know the causes too."

-- Charles Churchill

#Doubt Quotes #Might Quotes #Sacred Quotes

“If private revelations agree with Scripture, they are needless, and if they disagree, they are false.”
“Drunkenness is deplorably destructive, but her demurer sister Gluttony destroys a hundred to her one.”

Source : William Kitchiner, Luigi Cornaro (1847). “Directions for Invigorating and Prolonging Life; Or, The Invalid's Oracle ...”, p.173
“The shadows of Ina-Karekh are the place where nightmares dwell, but not their source. Never forget: the shadowlands are not elsewhere. We create them. They are within.”
“My lovely wife Janet has been in a few paintings. She is basically a reserved woman who has never sought the limelight. She has always been there throughout my career and continues to be at my side.”
“There is an odd sense of responsibility attached to appearing in a drama about a real piece of history. A work of fiction is fun.”
“The impressionistic method leads into a complete splitting and dissolution of all areas involved in the composition, and color is used to create an overall effect of light. The color is, through such a shading down from the highest light in the deepest shadows, sacrified an degraded to a (black-and-white) function. This leads to the destructions of the color as color.”
“I'm intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation.”
“Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.”

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