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thinking people remember
Charles Caleb Colton A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.
thinking greed words-of-wisdom
Charles Dickens "As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."
thinking people noses
Charles Dickens I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.
thinking diversity different
Charles Dickens Them which is of other naturs thinks different.
thinking america impossible
Charles Dickens I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.
thinking pieces ships
Charles Dickens and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.
thinking light law
Charles Dickens The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.
thinking advice
Charles Stewart Parnell Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.
extravagance certain harbour
Alfred North Whitehead Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives.
extravagance greedy extravagant
Sallust Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own
extravagance way subtle
Tanith Lee Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable.
extravagance poor console
Oscar Wilde The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance.
extravagance extravagant
Chris Martin The most extravagant thing I've ever bought is 95 tops all the same.
extravagance
Imelda Marcos Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life.
extravagance poverty poor
Plutarch Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly.
extravagance income cascade
William Shenstone A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity.
extravagance too-much details
Willa Cather Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.
spiritual attitude taken
Charles Dickens The receptive attitude enables one mind to fix itself to another as by spiritual grappling-irons. When you see that every word you utter us taken in, and weighed, and measured by your listener, you cannot free yourself from the influence of his presence. You are compelled to have in your thoughts not only the words you utter, but the man to whom they are spoken. You must not only talk, and talk well, but you must talk to him.
spiritual men animal
Charles Caleb Colton Religion, like its votaries, while it exists on earth, must have a body as well as a soul. A religion purely spiritual might suit a being as pure, but men are compound animals; and the body too often lords it over the mind.
spirit existence sweetness
Charles Dickens A contented spirit is the sweetness of existence.
spiritual victory knees
Charles Stanley Whatever brings you to your knees in weakness carries the greatest potential for your personal success and spiritual victory.
spiritual children use
Charles Stanley As God's children, we are not to be observers; we're to participate actively in the Lord's work. Spectators sit and watch, but we are called to use our spiritual gifts and serve continually.
spiritual adversity growth
Charles Stanley Adversity is not simply a tool. It is God's most effective tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives. The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth. Once we begin to understand this, and accept it as a spiritual fact of life, adversity becomes easier to bear.
spiritual growth events
Charles Stanley The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth
spiritual pain believe
Charles Stanley Dealing with adversity is like preparing for surgery. By putting our faith in what the doctor has said, we believe we will be better off if we have the surgery. But that does not make it any less painful. By submitting to the hand of a surgeon, we are saying that our ultimate goal is health, even at the cost of pain. Adversity is the same way. It is a means to an end. It is God's tool for the advancement of our spiritual lives.
spiritual hate giving
Charles Spurgeon The change is radical it gives us new natures, it makes us love what we hated and hate what we loved, it sets us in a new road; it makes our habits different, it makes our thoughts different, it makes us different in private, and different in public.