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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 atheism knaves
Charles Caleb Colton He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
mean men dresses
Charles Caleb Colton It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them,--for every one, sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. But the truly great are, by universal suffrage, exempted from these trammels, an may live or dress as they please.
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.
reason rhetoric foe
Charles Caleb Colton The press is the foe of rhetoric, but the friend of reason.
reason
Charles Spurgeon Faith is led confidently to expect what reason would never suggest.
reason event-horizon lacking
Alan Moore We are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.
reason-why silent reason
David Henry Hwang There's a reason why the form was originally silent
reason shirts irrational
Barry Commoner I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.
reason shares sold
Jeffrey Skilling The only reason I sold the 500,000 shares on Sept. 17, the only reason, was Sept. 11.
reason violent expeditions
William Shakespeare The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason.
reason inequality seems
William Shakespeare Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true.
reason
William Shakespeare Love reasons without reason.
be-good ifs knows
Bill Murray You’ll never be good if you don’t know that you are.
be-good presumption
Bob Brown There's a presumption that somehow you calculate beforehand whether something is going to be good politically or not. I simply don't.
be-good
Aya Cash You have to be kinder to yourself, because it's a part of being good.
be-good ifs spares
Aiden Wilson Tozer God spares us because He is good, but He could not be good if He were not just.
be-good
Jane Fonda When you're told to be good, you have to get rid of whatever is bad. I sure identify with that.
be-good
Brigham Young Learn to be good for something.
be-good
Elizabeth Bishop Something needn't be large to be good.
be-good
David Nicholls Be good. Do something good.
be-good
Donald Trump If Russia and the United States got along well and went after ISIS, that would be good.