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mean men light
Charles Caleb Colton Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.
mean gossip secret
Charles Caleb Colton None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
mean advice asks
Charles Caleb Colton We ask advice but we mean approbation.
mean propriety disciple
Charles Caleb Colton Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.
mean love-is effort
Charles Dickens Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.
mean land consideration
Charles Sturt The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.
mean trust-in-god
Charles Stanley Trusting God means looking beyond what we can see to what God sees.
mean grace salvation
Charles Spurgeon Salvation is all grace, which means, free, gratis, for nothing.
focus-and-concentration games ninety
Chris Evert Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.
focus-and-concentration effort problem
Maxwell Maltz You can do only one thing at a time. I simply tackle one problem and concentrate all efforts on what I am doing at the moment.
focus-and-concentration meditation flying
Harrison Ford The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
focus-and-concentration creative drug
Jamais Cascio Many of the cognitive enhancement drugs serve to increase focus and concentration. But 'letting your mind wander' is very often an important part of the creative process.
focus-and-concentration goal world
Og Mandino It is those who concentrate on but one thing at a time who advance in this world
focus-and-concentration life-is prudence
Ralph Waldo Emerson The only prudence in life is concentration.
focus-and-concentration attention details
Willie Sutton Success in any endeavor requires single-minded attention to detail and total concentration.
hands feelings excess
Charles Caleb Colton The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.
hands class two
Charles Caleb Colton Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.
hands sorrow tears
Charles Dickens If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!
hands feet office
Charles Dickens Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
hands library grew
Charles Stross I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.
hands soul half
Charles Spurgeon I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.
hands despair rope
Charles Spurgeon Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.
hands soap calling
Charles Spurgeon There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.
hands doe lap
Alan Watts Where does my fist go when I open up my hand? Where does my lap go when I stand up?