Quotes with fables

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• Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.

  ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
  American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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• Because philosophy arises from awe, a philosopher is bound in his way to be a lover of myths and poetic fables. Poets and philosophers are alike in being big with wonder.

  ― St. Thomas Aquinas
  Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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• How many things served us but yesterday as articles of faith, which today we deem but fables?

  ― Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
  French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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• I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

  ― Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• The Bible has noble poetry in it; and some clever fables; and some blood-drenched history; and a wealth of obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies.

  ― Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.

  ― Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
  German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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• Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.

  ― Abraham Cowley
  English poet (1618 - 1667)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• blood-drenched
• establishing
• universal
• obscenity
• thousand
• shameful

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