"Thought can wing its way Swifter than lightning-flashes or the beam That hastens on the pinions of the morn."

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Source : James Gates Percival, Erasmus Darwin North (1866). “The Poetical Works of James Gates Percival: With a Biographical Sketch”, p.170

James Gates Percival

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“Many boyfriends or close male friends seem so different when they are by themselves, as opposed to when they are with a bunch of other guys. I think it has to do with the desperate desire on the part of guys to be seen as a "real guy" - a real man, a man's man.”

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“Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.”
“Peasant people ... don't have a chance to share in the riches that the planet can offer because some people are taking off so much of the pleasures of this world, and there's only so much to go around.”
“Someone is going to have to give up a piece of their pie so that someone else can have more.”
“The method I take to do this is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments, I have taken the course (as a Specimen of the Political Arithmetic I have long aimed at) to express myself in Terms of Number, Weight, or Measure; to use only Arguments of Sense, and to consider only such Causes, as have visible Foundations in Nature.”
“If you wish to get hold of the invisible you must penetrate as deeply as possible into the visible.”
“All you have to do is play better than the other guy and things go well. If you don't play better than the other players then somebody takes your place. Now a lot of guys, in this day and time with the transient nature of the sport, as soon as the competition gets too good, they want out.”
“You see a person when you look in the mirror that no one sees but you. Other people see a person when they look at you, but you're not that person, either.”

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