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book knowledge men
Charles Caleb Colton Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
book reading writing
Charles Caleb Colton Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
book writing companion
Charles Caleb Colton With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.
book easy easy-to-get
Charles Caleb Colton It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.
book names want
Charles Caleb Colton If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.
book writing mirrors
Charles Caleb Colton That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan himself were to write a book it would be in praise of virtue, because the good would purchase it for use, and the bad for ostentation.
book healing good-friend
Charles Caleb Colton Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
book reading fire
Charles Dickens It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too." Are you, Joe?" Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!
weather words-of-wisdom chicks
Charles Dickens "It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."
weather heaven storm
Charles Spurgeon Now and then there comes a crash of thunder in a storm, and we look up with amazement when he sets the heavens on a blaze with his lightning.
weather priorities survival
Bear Grylls Weather can kill you so fast. The first priority of survival is getting protection from the extreme weather.
weather tomorrow kind
Astrid Lindgren No Fridolf, bother all this learning. I can't study anymore because I must climb the mast to see what kind of weather we're going to have tomorrow.
weather economy
Kurt Vonnegut The economy is a thoughtless weather system.
weather atmosphere melting
Charles Manson If we don't wake up to that, there's going to be no weather because our polar caps are melting because we're doing bad things to the atmosphere,
weather ideas live-your-life
Bill Ayers The idea that you live your life in phases - I've never bought that. I feel like I'm the same person who sat in at the draft board in 1965, I'm the same person who joined a fraternity, I'm the same person who got an MFA at Bennington, and I'm the same person who founded Weather Underground. My values are still intact.
weather childhood remember
Bernard Levin I suppose we all tend to remember only the happiness from our childhood, as a sundial refuses to tell the time except in fine weather.
weather technique study
Benoit Mandelbrot The techniques I developed for studying turbulence, like weather, also apply to the stock market
wind east now-and-then
Charles Dickens The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.
wind arctic knows
Alan Green I don't know where this Arctic wind has come from but it's freezing!
wind two earth
Ed Begley, Jr. The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper...
wind want way
Ben Stiller I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.
window
Arthur Rimbaud I could never throw Love out of the window.
wind clouds height
Antony Hewish Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region.
wind endurance legs
Louis C. K. Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to be in shape and have endurance.
wind roots tree
Charlotte Bronte Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop.
wind wings madness
Charles Baudelaire I have felt the wind on the wing of madness.