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DAY
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QUOTE-FOR-THE-DAY
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1
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Do I believe in ghosts?
No, but I'm afraid of them.
--Marquise du Deffand
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2
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An idea, like a ghost
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. . must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
--Charles Dickens
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3
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Actors between plays are like ghosts
looking for bodies to inhabit.
--Gail Godwin
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4
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Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost
to
disturb your repose later on.
--Frederic Chopin
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5
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From ghoulies and ghosties
and long-leggety beasties
And things that go bump in the night,
Good Lord, deliver us!
-- Anonymous
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6
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From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly
fears and haunting thoughts proceed.
--William Wordsworth
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7
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Ghosts only exist
for those who wish to see them.
-- Holtei
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8
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I never really address myself to any image anybody
has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
--Sally Field
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9
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If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates
through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to
a ghost.
--Lloyd Douglas
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10
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak
December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost
upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; -- vainly I had sought
to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow -- sorrow for
the lost Lenore.
--Edgar Allan Poe
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11
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It is with true love as it is with ghosts;
everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
--Francois LaRochefoucauld
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12
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Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do.
Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And
I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost
of
Might-have-Been.
--Marva Collins
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13
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No ghost was
every seen by two pair of eyes.
--Thomas Carlyle
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14
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One's old acquaintances sometimes come upon one
like ghosts --
and most people hate ghosts.
--Margaret Baillie Saunders
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15
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Romance like a ghost
escapes
touching; it is always where you are not, not where you are. The interview
or conversation was prose at the time, but it is poetry in the memory.
--George William Curtis
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16
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Science fiction is no more written for scientists
than ghost stories
are written for ghosts.
--Brian Aldiss
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The blind person never fears ghosts.
--Burmese Proverb
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18
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The creative element in the mind of man . . .
emerges in as mysterious a fashion as those elementary particles which
leap into momentary existence in great cyclotrons, only to vanish again
like infinitesimal ghosts.
--Loren Eiseley
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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak
December,
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost
upon
the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; -- vainly I had sought
to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow -- sorrow for
the lost Lenore.
--Edgar Allan Poe
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20
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Public opinion is like the castle ghost;
no one has ever seen it, but everyone is scared of it.
--Sigmund Graff
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21
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The past is a ghost,
the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
--Bill Cosby
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22
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There are no ghosts
or gods wandering around in human history; only people.
--Edward Schillebeeckx
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23
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There is a ghost
That eats handkerchiefs;
It keeps you company
On all your travels.
--Christian Morgenstern
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24
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Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the
broad lands of America.
At least I presume not. But his ghost
will.
--D. H. Lawrence
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25
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Savor sufficient to lure the wispiest ghost
into
corpulence.
--Israel Shenker
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26
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging
back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghost-like.
--Ralph Ellison
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27
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True love is like ghosts,
which everybody talks about and few have seen.
--Francois LaRochefoucauld
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28
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Not that the Red Indian will ever possess the
broad lands of America. At least I presume not. But his ghost
will.
--D. H. Lawrence
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29
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GHOST, n. The outward
and visible sign of an inward fear.
--Ambrose Bierce
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30
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What gentle ghost,
besprent with April dew,
Hails me so solemnly to yonder yew?
--Ben Jonson
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31
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you want to know
whether i believe in ghost
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
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