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light alcohol cleaning
Charles Dickens Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
light moral sometimes
Charles Caleb Colton Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm.
light heaven growth
Charles Caleb Colton Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us.
light opposites people
Charles Dickens What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together!
light stage
Charles Dickens Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.
light heaven everyday
Charles Spurgeon When you speak of heaven, let your face light up...When you speak of hell well then, your everyday face will do.
light heaven grace
Charles Spurgeon The grace of the spirit comes only from heaven, and lights up the whole bodily presence.
light hands darkness
Alan Watts The question "What shall we do about it?" is only asked by those who do not understand the problem. If a problem can be solved at all, to understand it and to know what to do about it are the same thing. On the other hand, doing something about a problem which you do not understand is like trying to clear away darkness by thrusting it aside with your hands. When light is brought, the darkness vanishes at once.
desire holiness repentance
Charles Spurgeon Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated.
desire alive sin
Charles Spurgeon When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.
desire desire-for-success fear-of-failure
Alan Moore The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do
desire spirit holy
Aiden Wilson Tozer When we have the Holy Spirit we have all that is needed to be all that God desires us to be.
desire may grants
Aiden Wilson Tozer May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.
desire genocide treated
Chinua Achebe I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days.
desire intense stage
Chin-Ning Chu You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless.
desire crosses chosen
Edith Stein One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
desire balance sound
Edith Wharton The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts.
obscurity language obscenity
Edward Gibbon My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.
obscurity problem bigs
Cory Doctorow The big problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.
obscurity incompetence refuge
Robert A. Heinlein Obscurity is the refuge of incompetence.
obscurity problem bigger
Tim O'Reilly Obscurity is a bigger problem for authors than piracy.
obscurity problem piracy
Seth Godin Piracy is not the problem, obscurity is.
obscurity fame notoriety
Neil Gaiman Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.
obscurity talent highest
Plautus How often the highest talent lurks in obscurity.
obscurity genius buried
Plautus How often we see the greatest genius buried in obscurity!
obscurity poverty life-is
Jim Carrey Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.