#fain

You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing. ↗

— Walker Percy

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Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. ↗

— Walter Raleigh

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Know what to do if you feel faint or dizzy, especially if you might fall and hit your head. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#especially #faint #fall #feel #head

Two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead. ↗

— Karl Von Clausewitz

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We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#doing #fain #i #posterity #see

In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside. ↗

— Henri Bergson

#against #consciousness #earliest #entirety #every

Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow. ↗

— William Blake

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My second favorite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk bed until I faint. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#being #bunk #chore #faint #favorite

All the asylum clothing is made by the patients, but sewing does not employ one's mind. After several months' confinement the thoughts of the busy world grow faint, and all the poor prisoners can do is to sit and ponder over their hopeless fate. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#asylum #busy #clothing #confinement #does

Even that was all consumed after two days, and the patients had to try to choke down fresh fish, just boiled in water, without salt, pepper or butter; mutton, beef, and potatoes without the faintest seasoning. ↗

— Nellie Bly

#beef #boiled #butter #choke #consumed