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wisdom expectations looks
Charles Dickens Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
wisdom knowledge literature
Charles Caleb Colton We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
wisdom intelligence literature
Charles Caleb Colton Mystery is not profoundness.
wisdom next profit
Charles Caleb Colton The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.
wisdom believe errors
Charles Caleb Colton Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.
wisdom perfection
Charles Caleb Colton Perfection doesn't exist... only good attempts.
wisdom character
Charles Caleb Colton The true measure of your character is what you do when nobody's watching.
wisdom ifs
Charles Caleb Colton What would you do if you knew for sure that no one would ever find out?
truth greatness men
Charles Dickens It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
truth light lines
Charles Caleb Colton Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.
truth roots errors
Charles Caleb Colton It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors
truth honesty integrity
Charles Caleb Colton Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
truth common theory
Charles Caleb Colton Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
truth thinking hungry
Alanis Morissette I think everyone's hungry for the truth
truth lying heart
Alan Watts Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.
truth unity duality
Alan Watts Duality is always secretly unity.
truth unfolding absolutes
Alan Arkin Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.
heart thinking sensitive
Charles Dickens It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.
heart past men
Charles Dickens For who can wonder that man should feel a vague belief in tales of disembodied spirits wandering through those places which they once dearly affected, when he himself, scarcely less separated from his old world than they, is for ever lingering upon past emotions and bygone times, and hovering, the ghost of his former self, about the places and people that warmed his heart of old?
heart merry-christmas history
Charles Dickens every idiot who goes about with a 'Merry Christmas' on his lips should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart.
heart men ordinary
Charles Dickens I know that she deserves the best and purest love the heart of man can offer," said Mrs. Maylie; "I know that the devotion and affection of her nature require no ordinary return, but one that shall be deep and lasting.
heart men compassion
Charles Dickens Dead, your Majesty. Dead, my lords and gentlemen. Dead, Right Reverends and Wrong Reverends of every order. Dead, men and women, born with Heavenly compassion in your hearts. And dying thus around us every day.
heart thinking broken
Charles Dickens The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.
heart men expectations
Charles Dickens it is a principle of his that no man who was not a true gentleman at heart, ever was, since the world began, a true gentleman in manner. He says, no varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
heart night cities
Charles Dickens A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!
heart literature emotion
Charles Dickens There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated.