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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 trust-in-god
Charles Stanley Trusting God means looking beyond what we can see to what God sees.
mean grace salvation
Charles Spurgeon Salvation is all grace, which means, free, gratis, for nothing.
trying sometimes failing
Charles Dickens Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.
trying want scripture
Charles Spurgeon Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original
trying littles reason-why
Charles Spurgeon The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.
trying world term
Alan Watts A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
trying world
Alan Watts But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
trying way hurrying
Alan Watts Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
trying rooms natural
Alan Parsons That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.
trying entertainment television
Alan Moore I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.
trying waste firsts
Alan Ball I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.
doe authorship command
Charles Caleb Colton That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.
doe helping praying
Charles Spurgeon If your faith does not make you pray, have nothing to do with it; get rid of it, and God help thee to begin again.
doe christ please
Charles Spurgeon If it does not glorify Christ, let it not console or please you.
doe lines matter
Chris Bohjalian But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle?
doe absence
Chris Alexander Absence of failure does not constitute success.
doe happy-endings
Chita Rivera A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.
doe chiefs
Chinua Achebe A chief does not hurry.
doe
Edith Piaf Death does not exist.
doe too-much
Edith Wharton Everybody who does anything at all does too much.