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country men climate
Charles Caleb Colton In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.
country travel home
Charles Caleb Colton Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
country sadness men
Charles Caleb Colton In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.
country heart simple
Charles Caleb Colton As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.
country self names
Charles Caleb Colton The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.
country mean hands
Charles Dickens Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.
country night men
Charles Dickens If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.
country character men
Charles Dickens Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.
humanity architect grey
Chip Kidd Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'.
humanity
Chinua Achebe We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
humanity mud practicals
Chinua Achebe We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'
humanity historical lists
Edward Gibbon History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents
humanity church troops
Edward Gibbon The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and the Imperial troops acknowledged, without shame, that they were much less apprehensive of an encounter with the fiercest Barbarians.
humanity feelings emotion
Edward Gibbon Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
humanity sorrow ruins
Edward Gibbon If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.
humanity brotherhood groups
David Icke A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.
humanity way problem
Astro Teller Anything which is a huge problem for humanity we'll sign up for, if we can find a way to fix it.
dying easier crosses
Aiden Wilson Tozer Nothing's easier to talk about than surrendering ourselves and dying on the Cross. Nothing's harder than actually doing it.
dying good-health very-good
Edith Sitwell I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.
dying desire world
David Brainerd All my desire was the conversion of the heathen... I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world.
dying faces accepting
Audre Lorde What is there possibly left for us to be afraid of, after we have dealt face to face with death and not embraced it? Once I accept the existence of dying as a life process, who can ever have power over me again?
dying want praying
Audre Lorde the fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you can pray that you are no longer the same person. I pray that when I am about to die I will not be the same person that I am now.
dying ostracism morphine
Derek Jarman I'm not afraid of death but I am afraid of dying.
dying done today
Carlos Castaneda The dying sun will glow on you without burning, as it has done today.
dying famous-last-words has-beens
Charlotte Bronte Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy.
dying where-you-are ends
Charles de Lint Dying doesn't end anything - it just changes where you are