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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.
greatness men mind
Charles Caleb Colton Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
greatness deserving-it mind
Charles Caleb Colton Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
Charles Caleb Colton In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Charles Caleb Colton Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
greatness excellence littles
Charles Simmons True greatness consists in being great in little things.
greatness shy enough
Chris Colfer You can't shy away from your greatness just because you're afraid you're not great enough
greatness men yams
Chinua Achebe You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men.
greatness where-you-are depends
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Greatness depends on where you are coming from.
greatness serious scene
Edward Gibbon [The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.
bird singing believer
Charles Spurgeon Birds sing on a bare bough; O, believer, canst not thou?
bird decision singing
Alan Watts For a decision-the freest of my actions just happens like hiccups inside me or like a bird singing outside me.
bird mind coal
Ed Begley, Jr. Keep in mind, coal plants claim plenty of birds too. Sadly, hydro claims the lives of many fish. There is a price for everything. Solar does the best as far as very minimal wildlife damage.
bird toady tacky
Dean Acheson The Iraqi is really not whacky toady, perhaps, even tacky. When they gave him the word, he gave us the bird and joined with the Arabs, by cracky!
birds pacific stop worry
Hon Ip We also worry that birds will stop off in some of the U.S. territories in the Pacific like Guam, and Hawaii.
bird contact continue further related whether
Siti Supari We are awaiting for further results. We will continue to investigate whether she had been in contact with anything that related to bird flu,
bird challenges deal management people primarily
Chad Olson There are some challenges we deal with, primarily people management more than bird management.
bird slaughterhouse-five slaughterhouse-5
Kurt Vonnegut And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?
bird wish born
Kurt Vonnegut I wish we had all been born birds instead.