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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.
down-and fraud gross
Charles Caleb Colton The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
down-and maximum-effort
Charlie Munger Just keep your head down and do your best.
down-and way sometimes
Charles M. Schulz Sometimes I feel that life has passed me by... Do you ever feel that way, Charlie Brown?" "I feel that it has knocked me down and walked all over me!
down-and infinity
Edna St. Vincent Millay I screamed, and--lo!--Infinity Came down and settled over me
down-and quitter
Chelsea Handler I had to sit down and explain to [her friend] that AA was for quitters
down-and firsts cameras
Bo Burnham My first concern is that when you go to a show, you should be present. It's much more exciting to put the camera down and lose yourself in it.
down-and doe up-and-down
Ben Okri I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.
down-and imagine streets
Brian Tracy Imagine if your business burned down and you had to walk across the street and start again, what would you do differently?
down-and quarterback hard
Al Davis The quarterback must go down, and he must go down hard
sides god-is-with-us
Charles Spurgeon God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.
sides actors safe
Chloe Grace Moretz An actor always goes to the safe side.
sides action side-effects
Barry Commoner No action is without its side effects.
sides cottages industry
Derek Bailey I have always been attracted to the cottage industry side of this business.
sides aspect
Madeleine Albright There are a lot of similar aspects in all the religions. The question is which side of it you hold up.
sides world want
Charlie Ergen The world is changing.... I don't, as a consumer, want advertising that's not relevant. If we're going to take a side let's take the side of the consumer,
sides argument difficult
Charles Dudley Warner It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.
sides opinion argument
Charlie Munger I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do.
sides jazz tradition
Bill Laswell Miles Davis fully embraced possibilities and delved into it. He was criticized heavily from the jazz side. He was supposed to be part of a tradition, but he didn't consider himself part of a tradition.