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• Hume's doctrine was that the circumstances vary, the amount of happiness does not; that the beggar cracking fleas in the sunshine under a hedge, and the duke rolling by in his chariot, the girl equipped for her first ball, and the orator returning triumphant from the debate, had different means, but the same quantity of pleasant excitement.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Happiness, Girl, Mean

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.87, Harvard University Press

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• Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar
  Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid car;
  Or on wide-waving wings expanded bear
  The flying chariot through the field of air.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Air, Wings, Car

  Erasmus Darwin (1807). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants”, p.22

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• The Beautiful chariots of kings wear out, This body too undergoes decay. But the Dhamma of the good does not decay: So the good proclaim along with the good.

  Gautama Buddha

  Beautiful, Kings, Doe

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• Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots.

  William McGregor Paxton

  Victory, Principles, Horsemen

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• Talent wears well, genius wears itself out; talent drives a snug brougham in fact; genius, a sun-chariot in fancy.

  Ouida

  Science, Genius, Fancy

  Ouida (1871). “Chandos: A Novel : in Two Volumes”, p.91

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• Dryden 's genius was of that sort which catches fire by its own motion; his chariot wheels get hot by driving fast.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Fire, Hot, Genius

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge (1851). “Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge”, p.297

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• But I have sinuous shells of pearly hue Within, and they that lustre have imbibed In the sun's palace-porch, where when unyoked chariot-wheel stands midway in the wave: Shake one, and it awakens; then apply Its polisht lips to your attentive ear, And it remembers its august abodes, And murmurs as the ocean murmurs there.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Ocean, August, Ears

  Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, p.23, Delphi Classics

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• The tyrant should take heed to what he doth,
  Since every victim-carrion turns to use,
  And drives a chariot, like a god made wroth,
  Against each piled injustice.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Tyrants, Use, Injustice

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1872). “Poetical Works”, p.297

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• It’s bound to be one hell of a steel wheelin, railroadin good time…while the western country rolls by and the smoke rises blacker than musical notes pouring out of that stoked-up-and-chuggin iron chariot.

  Ketch Secor

  Country, Iron, Musical

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• The earliest full-length account of a chariot race appears in Book xxiii of the Iliad.

  Richard Arnold Epstein

  Book, Race, Iliad

  "Johannes Gutenberg printed playing cards the same year as his famous Bible (1440). The cards from Gutenberg's press were Tarot cards, from which the modern deck is derived. The Theory of Gambling and Statistical Logic". Book by Richard Arnold Epstein, 1977.

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• We gentlemen, whose chariot's roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order.

  John Vanbrugh

  Order, Gentleman, Four

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• By arts, sails, and oars, ships are rapidly moved; arts move the
  light chariot, and establish love.
  [Lat., Arte citae veloque rates remoque moventur;
  Arte levis currus, arte regendus Amor.]

  Ovid

  Art, Moving, Light

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• Santa Claus is a god. He's no less a god than Ahura Mazda, or Odin, or Zeus. Think of the white beard, the chariot pulled through the air by a breed of animal which doesn't ordinarily fly, the prayers (requests for gifts) which are annually mailed to him and which so baffle the Post Office, the specially-garbed priests in all the department stories. And don't gods reflect their creators' society? The Greeks had a huntress goddess, and gods of agriculture and war and love. What else would we have but a god of giving, of merchandising, and of consumption?

  Donald E. Westlake

  Prayer, War, Animal

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• Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Age, Faces, Wheels

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• To tell the truth, the chariot was an astonishing sight to behold, because I had polished the steel of my flying house so carefully that it reflected the sunlight on all sides. It was so bright and dazzling that I thought, myself, that I had been carried away in a chariot of fire.

  Cyrano de Bergerac

  Fire, Sight, House

  "The Other World: Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon". Book by Cyrano de Bergerac, 1657.

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• That cross inmate of your household, who has hitherto made life a burden to you, and who has been the Juggernaut car to crush your soul into the dust, may henceforth be a glorious chariot to carry you to the heights of heavenly patience and long-suffering.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Crush, Dust, Long

  Hannah Whitall Smith (2017). “The Christian's Secret to a Happy Life”, p.179, B&H Publishing Group

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• Thus weary of the world, away she hies, And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid Their mistress mounted through the empty skies In her light chariot quickly is convey'd; Holding their course to Paphos, where their queen Means to immure herself and not be seen.

  William Shakespeare

  Queens, Mean, Light

  William Shakespeare, William Harness (1830). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare”

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• Then, when much blood had clogged their chariot-wheels I would go up and wash them from sweet wells, Even with truths that lie too deep for taint. I would have poured my spirit without stint But not through wounds; not on the cess of war.

  Wilfred Owen

  Sweet, War, Lying

  Wilfred Owen (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Wilfred Owen (Illustrated)”, p.189, Delphi Classics

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