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MAGIC, n. An art of converting superstition into coin. There are other arts serving the same high purpose, but the discreet lexicographer does not name them.

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Satan; so call him now, his former name Is heard no more in heaven.

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Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention is made, it is implicit under the name of "heaven," when it is said, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

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Children and savages use only nouns or names of things, which they convert into verbs, and apply to analogous mental acts.

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Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

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Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)

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The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

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Why is it that words like these seem dull and cold? Is it because there is no word tender enough to be your name?

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So young a child ought to know which way she's going, even if she doesn't know her own name!

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'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print. A book's a book, although there's nothing in 't.

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All of us with one voice call one God differently as Parmatma, Ishwara, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Allah, Khuda, Dada-Hormuzda, Jehova, God and an infinite variety of names.

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You've got to do the big studio movies to get your name, but as an actor and for your own well-being you kind of need to step back from that occasionally and do the smaller films. In the end, that's what helps you learn and makes you a better actor.

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He is haunted by a demon, a demon against which he feels powerless, because in its first manifestation it has no face, no name, nothing; and the words, the poem he makes, are a kind of exorcism of this demon.

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They say we die twice - once when the last breath leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.

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The modern mind will accept nothing on authority, but will accept anything on no authority. Say that the Bible or the Pope says so and it will be dismissed without further examination. But preface your remark with "I think I heard somewhere," or, try but fail to remember the name of some professor who might have said "such-and-such," and it will be immediately accepted as an unshakable fact.

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The authors who affect contempt for a name in the world put their names to the books which they invite the world to read.

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The poet, described in ideal perfection, brings the whole soul of man into activity, with the subordination of its faculties to each other according to their relative worth and dignity. He diffuses a tone and spirit of unity, that blends, and (as it were) fuses , each into each, by that synthetic and magical power, to which I would exclusively appropriate the name of Imagination.

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Finally, I would thank, had I not lost his name and address, a gentleman in America, who has generously and gratuitously corrected the punctuation, the botany, the entomology, the geography, and the chronology of previous works of mine and will, I hope, not spare his services on the present occasion.

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Shakespeare's name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.

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and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

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