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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 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.
mean plot use
Charles Stross Personally, I avoid deus ex machina like the plague - if you have to use one, it means you failed to set up the universe and the plot properly. It's like a whodunnit where there's no actual way for the reader to identify the perpetrator before the climactic reveal: there's no sense of closure for the reader.
mean trust-in-god
Charles Stanley Trusting God means looking beyond what we can see to what God sees.
feelings age done
Charles Dickens We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances.
feelings want cop
Alain Robert It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.
feelings dazzle christ
Aiden Wilson Tozer Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him.
feelings way roles
Chiwetel Ejiofor I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it.
feelings stills wrong-things
Eartha Kitt I'm still with that feeling that I am afraid of doing the wrong thing, because somebody is going to punish me.
feelings finals vices
David Hume .. that which renders morality an active principle and constitutes virtue our happiness, and vice our misery: it is probable, I say, that this final sentence depends on some internal sense or feeling, which nature has made universal in the whole species.
feelings photograph motivated
David Burnett The greatest photographs are motivated by human feeling.
feelings weight might
David Brooks When your institution is under assault, you're feeling like the weight is on it and the history might be flowing away, don't turn inward, go outward.
feelings actors cameras
Benicio Del Toro It really is a pleasure to work with someone who you admire. Whatever you do in front of the camera, and I don't know what it is, but actors have this thing that you recognize someone that makes you better. When you do that, it's a great feeling.
tasks advertising easy
Charles Caleb Colton It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them.
tasks generations embrace
Chinua Achebe Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.
tasks reader
Edward Hirsch As a reader you have a task to do, you have something to do. You bring your experience to it. It's not all inherit in the poem.
tasks artistic solutions
Arne Jacobsen That is the artistic task: To choose the best from these solutions.
tasks may architecture
Arne Jacobsen In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture.
tasks remains has-beens
Madeleine Albright A great task has been completed and an even larger one remains.
tasks
Michael Porter Unfortunately, I'm an engineer. I'm always thinking about, what's the task and how do I get it done? And some of my tasks are pretty broad, and pretty fuzzy, and pretty funky, but that's the way I think.
tasks answers might
Carl Jung I could well imagine that I might have lived in former centuries and there encountered questions I was not yet able to answer; that I had been born again because I had not fulfilled the task given to me.
tasks abstract modernization
Dmitry Medvedev I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; its a very specific task.