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Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.

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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
Author
Humorist
Journalist
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
Vibrations
Atoms
Keys
Quite
Gone
Used
Everything

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As the skull of the man grows broader, so do his creeds. And his gods they are shaped in his image and mirror his needs. And he clothes them with thunders and beauty, He clothes them with music and fire, Seeing not, as he bows by their altars, That he worships his own desire.
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Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?
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personally my ambition is to get my time as a cockroach shortened for good behavior and be promoted to a revenue officer it is not much of a step up but i am humble
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An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.
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it is better to be a part of beauty for one instant and then cease to exist than to exist forever and never be a part of beauty
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Give up the dream that Love may trick the fates To live again somewhere beyond the gleam Of dying stars, or shatter the strong gates Some god has builded high give up the dream.
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It wont be long now it wont be long man is making deserts of the earth it wont be long now before man will have used it up so that nothing but ants and centipedes and scorpions can find a living on it.
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The most pleasant and useful persons are those who leave some of the problems of the universe for God to worry about.
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There is bound to be a certain amount of trouble running any country. If you are president, the trouble happens to you. But if you are a tyrant you can arrange things so that most of the trouble happens to other people.
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This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust, death, death I am alive!
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A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.
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Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.
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Insects have their own point of view about civilization a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat.
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Life is one damned kitten after another. Mehitabel the Alley Cat
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It would be a colorless world if each individual did not secretly believe himself superior to almost everyone else.
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fire is beautiful and we know that if we get too close it will kill us but what does that matter it is better to be happy for a moment and be burned up with beauty than to live a long time and be bored all the while
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You want to know whether I believe in ghosts? Of course I do not believe in them. If you had known as many of them as I have, you would not believe in them either.
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Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat
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An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
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Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.
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