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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.
night doors hands
Charles Dickens For the night-wind has a dismal trick of wandering round and round a building of that sort, and moaning as it goes; and of trying, with its unseen hand, the windows and the doors; and seeking out some crevices by which to enter.
night liberty sun
Charles Caleb Colton Despotism can no more exist in a nation until the liberty of the press be destroyed than the night can happen before the sun is set.
night people causes
Charles Dickens People like us don't go out at night cause people like them see us for what we are
night doctors two
Charles Dickens The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous.
night men wind
Charles Dickens "I saw her, in the fire, but now. I hear her in music, in the wind, in the dead stillness of the night," returned the haunted man.
night giving church
Charles Dickens Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, and hides among the dead.
night air sky
Charles Dickens [I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air.
night men sky
Charles Spurgeon He who boasts of being perfect is perfect in folly. I never saw a perfect man. Every rose has its thorns, and every day its night. Even the sun shows spots, and the skies are darkened with clouds; and faults of some kind nestle in every bosom.
night hands names
Charles Spurgeon When we reach the hilltops of heaven, and look back upon all the way whereby the Lord our God hath led us, how shall we praise Him who, before the eternal throne, undid the mischief which Satan was doing upon earth. How shall we thank Him because He never held His peace, but day and night pointed to the wounds upon His hands, and carried our names upon His breastplate!
parent religion indifferent
Charles Dickens The universe, he observed, makes rather an indifferent parent, I am afraid.
parent kind theater
Alan Rickman My parents certainly didn't have anything to do with the theater. I'm some kind of accident.
parent pious
Akhil Sharma My parents are deeply pious Hindus.
parenthood checks planned-parenthood
Chris Christie I never wrote a check to Planned Parenthood.
parent one-day fool
Edward Hoagland Henry David Thoreau, who never earned much of a living or sustained a relationship with any woman that wasn't brotherly -- who lived mostly under his parents' roof . . . who advocated one day's work and six days "off" as the weekly round and was considered a bit of a fool in his hometown . . . is probably the American writer who tells us best how to live comfortably with our most constant companion, ourselves.
parent touchy my-own
Ben Stiller My own parents were touchy-feely.
parent comedian actors
Ben Stiller Whatever talent I had, I'm sure it helped that my parents were in the business and that I grew up around actors, comedians and directors.
parent baptism slave
Arthur Rimbaud I am the slave of my baptism. Parents, you have caused my misfortune, and you have caused your own.
parent dare critics
Arna Bontemps How dare anyone, parent, schoolteacher, or merely literary critic, tell me not to act colored.