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believe might impossible
Charles Soule This might seem impossible to believe, but some lawyers actually like lawyering.
believe years climate
Charles Sturt The year 1826 was remarkable for the commencement of one of those fearful droughts to which we have reason to believe the climate of New South Wales is periodically subject.
believe goal achieve
Charles Stanley Believing you can achieve a goal is vital to reaching a goal.
believe men christianity
Charles Spurgeon I would rather believe a limited atonement that is efficacious for all men for whom it was intended, than a universal atonement that is not efficacious for anybody, except the will of men be added to it.
believe criticism half
Charles Spurgeon Believe only half of the praise and half of the criticism.
believe christ said
Charles Spurgeon Faith is believing that Christ is what he is said to be, and that he will do what he has promised to do, and then to expect this of him.
believe men mad
Charles Spurgeon I met another man who considered himself perfect, but he was thoroughly mad; and I do not believe that any of the pretenders to perfection are better than good maniacs... for while a man has got a spark of reason left in him, he cannot, unless he is the most impudent of impostors, talk about being perfect.
believe atonement wide
Charles Spurgeon I do not believe in an atonement which is admirably wide, but fatally ineffectual.
sadness faces brightness
Charles Dickens Some women's faces are, in their brightness, a prophecy; and some, in their sadness, a history.
sadness night years
Charles Spurgeon God alone can do what seems impossible. This is the promise of his grace: 'I will restore to you the years that the swarming locust has eaten' (Joel 2:25). God can give back all those years of sorrow, and you will be the better for them. God will grind sunlight out of your black nights. In the oven of affliction, grace will prepare the bread of delight. Someday you will thank God for all your sadness.
sadness hands all-alone
Al Stewart You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.
sadness mind want
Akhenaton What is the source of sadness, but feebleness of the mind? What giveth it power but the want of reason? Rouse thyself to the combat, and she quitteth the field before thou strikest.
sadness
Deborah Harkness And happiness is always louder than sadness.
sadness humility thinking
C. S. Lewis My own idea, for what it is worth, is that all sadness which is not either arising from the repentance of a concrete sin and hastening towards concrete amendment or restitution, or else arising from pity and hastening to active assistance, is simply bad; and I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to 'rejoice' as much as by anything else. Humility, after the first shock, is a cheerful virtue.
sadness mean thinking
Aaron Swartz What is "this drive"? It's the tendency to not simply accept things as they are but to want to think about them, to understand them. To not be content to simply feel sad but to ask what sadness means. To not just get a bus pass but to think about the economic reasons getting a bus pass makes sense. I call this tendency the intellectual.
sadness being-funny
Charlie Chaplin What a sad business is being funny!
sadness sunshine darkness
Bill Withers Ain't no sunshine when she's gone, only darkness every day.
eye exercise cry
Charles Dickens It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away.
eye home dark
Charles Dickens Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.
eye numbers envy
Charles Caleb Colton As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of envy, notwithstanding their number, ought not to wound our virtue by reason of their insignificance.
eye men thinking
Charles Dickens I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music.
eye hands evil
Charles Dickens But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless.
eye hypocrisy shining
Charles Dickens [S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
eye mad black
Charles Dickens An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror.
eye light skins
Charles Dickens With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing.
eye thoughtful great-expectations
Charles Dickens She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.