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It is very seldom that the same man knows much of science, and about the things that were known before science came. — Lord Dunsany

Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes. — Lord Dunsany

There is no beauty or romance or mystery in the sea except for the men that sail abroad upon it, and those who stay at home and dream of them. — Lord Dunsany

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories. — Lord Dunsany

The years are going by us like huge birds, whom Doom and Destiny and the schemes of God have frightened up out of some old gray marsh. — Lord Dunsany

Hooded, and veiled with their night-like tresses, The Fates shall bring what no prophet guesses." And — Lord Dunsany

The fear of dogs is deep and universal amongst all that are less than Man. — Lord Dunsany

Rodriguez seldom concerned himself with the past, holding that the future is all we can order the scheme of.
And maybe even here he was wrong. — Lord Dunsany

The Gibbelins eat, as is well known, nothing less good than man. — Lord Dunsany

I care about money, very much. I want it. I don't ever want to be without it. My mother once said about me, 'Elaine has to have money.' — Elaine Stritch

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders. — Lord Dunsany

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication. — Walt Whitman

I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full. — Lord Dunsany

Contrast is the dramatist's method. — Lord Dunsany

Ivy dreams sullenly and alone of overthrowing the cities. — Lord Dunsany

It was the hour when gauze-winged insects are born that only live for a day. — Lord Dunsany

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us. — Abraham Lincoln

Postwar U.S. was the world's leader in science and technology. The investment in science research was staggering. — Siddhartha Mukherjee

How beautiful are dreams! In dreams the dead may live, even the long dead and the very silent. — Lord Dunsany

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. — Lord Dunsany

I'm in favor of progress; it's change I don't like. — Mark Twain

Nothing is as certain as a closed mind — Lord Dunsany

Nothing is unobtainable to the sword. — Lord Dunsany