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summer spring winter
Charles Dickens Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade.
summer reading boys
Charles Dickens This was my only and my constant comfort. When I think of it, the picture always rises in my mind, of a summer evening, the boys at play in the churchyard, and I sitting on my bed, reading as if for life.
summer country nature
Charles Dickens A tranquil summer sunset shone upon him as he approached the end of his walk, and passed through the meadows by the river side. He had that sense of peace, and of being lightened of a weight of care, which country quiet awakens in the breasts of dwellers in towns.
summer morning air
Charles Dickens The appearance presented by the streets of London an hour before sunrise, on a summer's morning, is most striking even to the few whose unfortunate pursuits of pleasure, or scarcely less unfortunate pursuits of business, cause them to be well acquainted with the scene. There is an air of cold, solitary desolation about the noiseless streets which we are accustomed to see thronged at other times by a busy, eager crowd, and over the quiet, closely-shut buildings, which throughout the day are swarming with life and bustle, that is very impressive.
summer spiritual winter
Charles Dickens From the days when it was always summer in Eden, to these days when it is mostly winter in fallen latitudes, the world of a man has invariably gone one way Charles Darnay's way the way of the love of a woman
summer ice mind
Charles Dickens ....that the mounds of ices, and the bowls of mint-julep and sherry cobbler they make in these latitudes, are refreshments never to be thought of afterwards, in summer, by those who would preserve contented minds.
summer winter order
Alan Jay Lerner The winter is forbidden till December, And exits March the second on the dot. By order summer lingers through September In Camelot.
summer brother night
Al Jarreau I kind of knew something was going on, and my older brothers and sisters were singing be-boppish kinds of stuff in the living room, and I was listening. I started singing, warmer than a summer night, at seven or eight years old.
thinking words-of-wisdom done
Charles Dickens At last, however, he began to think -- as you or I would have thought at first; for it is always the person not in the predicament who knows what ought to have been done in it, and would unquestionably have done it too . . .
thinking words-of-wisdom asking
Charles Dickens When we have done our very, very best, papa, and that is not enough, then I think the right time must have come for asking help of others.
thinking hiking feet-and-walking
Charles Dickens If I could not walk far and fast, I think I should just explode and perish.
thinking vanity
Charles Caleb Colton None of us are so much praised or censured as we think.
thinking two glory
Charles Caleb Colton There are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best have had their calumniators, the very worst their panegyrists.
thinking enemy frankness
Charles Caleb Colton He that openly tells, his friends all that he thinks of them, must expect that they will secretly tell his enemies much that they do not think of him.
thinking people remember
Charles Caleb Colton A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.
thinking daring finished
Charles Caleb Colton Those who have finished by making all others think with them, have usually been those who began by daring to think with themselves.
thinking mind wish
Charles Dickens I never thought before, that there was a woman in the world who could affect me so much by saying so little. But don't be hard in your construction of me. You don't know what my state of mind towards you is. You don't know how you haunt and bewilder me. You don't know how the cursed carelessness that is over-officious in helping me at every other turning of my life WON'T help me here. You have struck it dead, I think, and I sometimes wish you had struck me dead along with it.
expectations world too-late
Charles Dickens We changed again, and yet again, and it was now too late and too far to go back, and I went on. And the mists had all solemnly risen now, and the world lay spread before me.
expectations people words-of-wisdom
Charles Dickens So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.
expectations woods grain
Charles Dickens No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
expectations ugly helping
Charles Dickens Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?
expectations shining quality
Charles Caleb Colton Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.
expectations done defying
Alan Rickman I am hellbent on defying your expectations, at every turn, and even if you don't like what's being done, I dare you to find it uninteresting.
expectations sacred looks
Aiden Wilson Tozer With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day.
expectations goodness
Aiden Wilson Tozer Always God’s goodness is the ground of our expectation.
expectations firsts novel
Chloe Grace Moretz If you read the novel, you have expectations. And, if you've seen something first, it's just hard to do.