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• I, too, am indignant when the worthy Homer nods; yet in a long work it is allowable for sleep to creep over the writer.
  [Lat., Et idem
  Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus;
  Verum opere longo fas est obrepere somnum.]

  Horace

  Sleep, Long, Bonus

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• Peevishness may be considered the canker of life, that destroys its vigor and checks its improvement; that creeps on with hourly depredations, and taints and vitiates what it cannot consume.

  Samuel Johnson

  Vigor, May, Improvement

  Samuel Johnson (1977). “Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.185, Univ of California Press

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• In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune.

  Aristotle

  Law, Government, Matter

  Aristotle (2013). “The Essential Aristotle”, p.335, Simon and Schuster

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• The reason you see yourself as a creep is because you have an appreciation of what perfection is, whereas no one else conceives of themselves in that way, since they don't even strive.

  Frederick Lenz

  Appreciation, Buddhism, Perfection

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• We must not creep along when our souls cry out for us to soar!

  Helen Keller

  Soul, Cry, Soar

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• We devolve into animals when we creep near to death.

  Hugh Howey

  Animal

  Hugh Howey (2017). “Machine Learning: New and Collected Stories”, p.301, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• "Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.

  Charles Dickens

  Boys, Want, Flesh

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.64

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• I've always been timid. I wait for the mating signal, yet I want to show my interest, but I'm too goddamn bashful to go for it! I have no sympathy for wolves. Why can't a man wait and see if there is any interest in them? Every woman wants to be pursued, it's a courting dance, a mating game and it should be that way, played out. The world is full of creeps.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Men, Games, Waiting

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• I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like snow falling off a roof.

  David Nicholls

  Fall, Believe, Snow

  David Nicholls (2014). “Us: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Receive, dear friend, the truths I teach,
  So shalt thou live beyond the reach
  Of adverse Fortune's pow'r;
  Not always tempt the distant deep,
  Nor always timorously creep
  Along the treach'rous shore.

  Horace

  Truth, Moderation, Fortune

  Horace, D. S. Carne-Ross, Kenneth Haynes (1996). “Horace in English”, Penguin Group USA

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• Ambitious men spend their youth in rendering themselves worthy of patronage; it is their great mistake. While the foolish creatures are laying in stores of knowledge and energy, so that they shall not sink under the weight of responsible posts that recede from them, schemers come and go who are wealthy in words and destitute of ideas, astonish the ignorant, and creep into the confidence of those who have a little knowledge.

  Honore de Balzac

  Success, Mistake, Ambition

  Honore de Balzac (2011). “The Magic Skin: Or The Wild Ass's Skin”, p.99, The Floating Press

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• Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Kings, Mind

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• The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual.

  Oscar Wilde

  Real, Lying, Emotional

  Oscar Wilde (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)”, p.1489, Delphi Classics

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• Envy, slothful vice,
  Never makes its way in lofty characters,
  But, like the skulking viper, creeps and crawls
  Close to the ground.

  Ovid

  Character, Envy, Vices

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• POET
  If not in a place, where are the People weeping?
  LIBERAL
  They creep weeping in the face, not place.
  POET
  Is it something with which we may cope
  The weeping, the creeping, the peepee-ing, the peeping?

  Allen Tate

  People, May, Faces

  Allen Tate (1947). “Poems, 1920-1945: A Selection”

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• The idiot greens the meadow with his eyes,
  The meadow creeps implacable and still;
  A dog barks, the hammock swings, he lies.
  One two three the cows bulge on the hill.

  Allen Tate

  Dog, Lying, Eye

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.17, Macmillan

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• Why is it offensive to portray a creep and a murderer as a homosexual, but totally acceptable to present him as a religious Christian?

  Michael Medved

  Christian, Religious, Offensive

  Michael Medved (1992). “Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Collecting is the sort of thing that creeps up on you.

  Paul Mellon

  Collecting

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• Money is a terrible blab; she will betray the secrets of her owner, whatever he do to gag her. His virtues will creep out in her whisper; his vices she will cry aloud at the top of her tongue.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Money, Secret, Vices

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• Only as a grand gesture of defeat will men creep into the arms of the state and seek refuge in its power rather than their own courage.

  Henry Wriston

  Courage, Men, Gestures

  Henry Merritt Wriston (1943). “Challenge to freedom”

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• You know that love
  Will creep in service where it cannot go.

  William Shakespeare

  Knows

  William Shakespeare, William Harness (1825). “Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare”, p.127

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• When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport,
  But creep in crannies when he hides his beams.

  William Shakespeare

  Sports, Gnats, Shining

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “The Comedy of Errors In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.39, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I worked as a title searcher for almost 25 years. It took awhile for it to become fulfilling because it doesn't pay a whole lot, takes a long time to learn, and in the years of learning there are endless frustrations. And then it creeps up on you that you're able to solve problems, answer questions and rebut any challenges to your work.

  Larry Howes

  Frustration, Years, Long

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• I have enough money not to do pictures ever. I'm seventy years old. I don't want to get up at 6:30 in the morning and learn ten pages of dialogue to do with a bunch of creeps I don't like. It's gotta be fun for me.

  Michael Caine

  Morning, Fun, Years

  "Profile and Interview: Michael Caine". Interview with Erika Hernandez, www.aboutfilm.com.

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• Some of my favorite photos from the old days are of people who maybe didn't know how to smile. Maybe smiling in photos wasn't an accepted form of behavior back then. But the big eyes and the oversized dolls that people are carrying, and it's something about their hair - the anachronisms of these photos are really what creep me out.

  Ransom Riggs

  Eye, Hair, People

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