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Man cannot be uplifted he must be seduced into virtue
Don Marquis
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Don Marquis
Age: 59 †
Born: 1878
Born: July 29
Died: 1937
Died: December 29
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Illinois
USA
Donald Robert Perry Marquis
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A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists.
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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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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.
Don Marquis
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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Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?
Don Marquis
Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.
Don Marquis
He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country.
Don Marquis
Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.
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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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One of the most important things to remember about infant care is: don't change diapers in midstream.
Don Marquis
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!
Don Marquis
Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint.
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There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.
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I would rather start a family than finish one.
Don Marquis
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
Don Marquis
An optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.
Don Marquis
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
Don Marquis
Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.
Don Marquis
Just as soon as the uplifters get a country reformed it slips into a nose dive.
Don Marquis
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.
Don Marquis
