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home anchors sea
Charles Dickens Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.
home house may
Charles Caleb Colton A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
home names together
Charles Dickens When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.
home stronger spokes
Charles Dickens Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke.
home words-of-wisdom said
Charles Dickens "We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them."
home soul facts
Charles Stuart Calverley I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.
home pride men
Charles Studd Send us people with initiative, who can carry themselves and others too; such as need to be carried hamper the work and weaken those who should be spending their strength on the heathen. Weaklings should be nursed at home! If any have jealousy, prides, or talebearing traits lurking about them, do not send them, nor any who are prone to criticize. Send only Pauls and Timothys; men who are full of zeal, holiness and power. All others are hindrances. If you send us ten such men the work will be done.
home light shining
Charles Studd The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.
thinking words-of-wisdom done
Charles Dickens At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .
thinking words-of-wisdom asking
Charles Dickens When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.
thinking hiking feet-and-walking
Charles Dickens If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.
thinking vanity
Charles Caleb Colton None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.
thinking two glory
Charles Caleb Colton There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.
thinking enemy frankness
Charles Caleb Colton He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.
thinking people remember
Charles Caleb Colton A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.
thinking daring finished
Charles Caleb Colton Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.
thinking mind wish
Charles Dickens I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it.
player games profound
Charles Caleb Colton As in the game of billiards, the balls are constantly producing effects from mere chance, which the most skillful player could neither execute nor foresee, but which, when they do happen, serve mainly to teach him how much he has still to learn; so it is in the most profound and complicated game of politics and diplomacy. In both cases, we can only regulate our play by what we have seen, rather than by what we have hoped; and by what we have experienced, rather than by what we have expected.
play skills needs
Charles Spurgeon It needs more skill than I can tell To play the second fiddle well.
play done form
Alan Watts To play so as to be relaxed and refreshed for work is not to play, and no work is well and finely done unless it, too, is a form of play.
play forget notes
Alan Watts You must not be afraid of playing wrong notes. Just forget it, play it wrong! But play!
play what-matters bargaining
Alan Rosenberg Fair play doesn't pertain in bargaining. What matters there is leverage.
player sight league
Alan Pardew It's important that top clubs don't lose sight of the fact that it's the English Premier League and English players should be involved.
play who-i-am people
Alan Rickman Who I am gets in the way of people looking innocently at the parts I play.
play careers america
Alan Rickman I never expected to have any kind of film career, to be honest. It was all a bit of a surprise. But I was in a big hit play on Broadway. America, as many people will say, says yes more often than we do. And so I was suddenly surrounded by people saying yes. But I was aware that was 'cause of what I was in. It had a big impact.
play interesting people
Alan Rickman I don't play villains, I play very interesting people