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mean secret purpose
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation. Charles Caleb Colton
mean men light
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
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
mean advice asks
We ask advice but we mean approbation.
mean propriety disciple
Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.
mean love-is effort
Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort. Charles Dickens
mean land consideration
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. Charles Sturt
mean plot use
Personally, I avoid deus ex machina like the plague - if you have to use one, it means you failed to set up the universe and the plot properly. It's like a whodunnit where there's no actual way for the reader to identify the perpetrator before the climactic reveal: there's no sense of closure for the reader. Charles Stross
mean trust-in-god
Trusting God means looking beyond what we can see to what God sees. Charles Stanley
journey discovery meditation-and-yoga
When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. Alan Watts
journey numbers bored
I'm not like J.K. Rowling, where I know there's going to be this number of seasons, and I know exactly what's going to happen. I would be so bored if that was the case. There would be no journey. There would be nothing to discover. Alan Ball
journey thinking my-journey
To know that God thinks about me is the beginning of my journey of faith. Aiden Wilson Tozer
journey conclusion
Faith is not a conclusion you reach...it's a journey you live.
journey once-upon-a-time stories
Anyone can have a once-upon-a-time or a happily-ever-after, but it's the journey between that makes the story worth telling. Chris Colfer
journey trying lessons
But one of the big lessons I have learned from my journey is you can’t please everyone, so don’t try.
journey darkness survival
Narrative is a very feeble weapon in the face of human darkness and yet it's all we have. That we have to hang the transformation and survival of our species on the journey and transformation of one singular person so far outside of what we expect they can do. Chris Abani
journey practice profound
If there is some profound method that offers a quick way, we would rather follow that than undertake arduous journeys and difficult practices. But some manual work and physical effort is necessary. Chogyam Trungpa
journey order inspire
But again and again, we should reflect back to the darkness of the cocoon. In order to inspire ourselves forward, we must look back to see the contrast with the place we came from. You see, we cannot reject the world of the cocoon - which out which we may create a new cocoon. When we see the suffering that occured in the old cocoon, that inspires us to go forward in our journey of warriorship. It is a journey that is unfolding within us.
egypt recipes ingredients
It’s not that Egypt doesn’t have a recipe for a democratic transition. It seems to lack even the basic mental ingredients. David Brooks
egyptians reverse
We approached the Egyptians first. It was kind of the reverse of normal. ... At first they had to be convinced. Peter Lacovara
egypt white giving
President Obama invited John McCain to the White House to give his opinion on Egypt, specifically what it's like to be a mummy. Bill Maher
egypt order greek
Elegance is reduction, simplification, condensation. It is spare, stark, sleek. Elegance is cultivated abstraction. The source of Greek and Roman classicism - clarity, order, proportion, balance - is in Egypt. Camille Paglia
egypt japan white
Imperialism and slavery are no white male monopoly, but are everywhere from Egypt, Assyria, and Persia to India, China and Japan.
egypt personality lines
Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things , which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.
egyptian hall museum open
A new hall for mummies will open at the Egyptian Museum in a fortnight's time. Zahi Hawass
egyptians good news recent stand support time together
This is good news after the recent sadness, it's the first time in a long time that all Egyptians stand together to support their team.
egypt other-cultures play
I will continue to work for the advancement of freedoms in Egypt and the Arab world until I drop dead. ... Education itself - which can and should play an important role in the apprenticeship of tolerance and respect for other people - sometimes encourages identitarian closure, or even extremist behaviour ... It is therefore vital to ensure that education does not encourage rejection of other people or identitarian closure, but that on the contrary it encourages knowledge and respect for other cultures, other religions and other ways of being and living. Boutros Boutros-Ghali