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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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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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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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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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I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of the gods towards their civilization.
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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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The things that I can't have I want, And what I have seems second-rate, The things I want to do I can't, And what I have to do I hate.
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An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
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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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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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Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
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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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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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Old godheads sink in space and drown Their arks like foundered galleons sucked down.
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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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If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.
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