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Charles Dickens External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty.
fall mind excess
Charles Dickens Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
fall vanity world
Charles Caleb Colton He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble.
fall velocity vacuums
Charles Caleb Colton The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.
fall errors giving
Charles Caleb Colton Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!
fall giving wife
Charles Caleb Colton There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife. He that deserts the latter, and gives himself up entirely to the guidance of the former, will certainly fall into many pitfalls and quagmires, like him who walks by flashes of lightning, rather than the steady beams of the sun.
fall errors common
Charles Caleb Colton Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those, who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire; and when they had the prudence to acquire, had no longer the power to enjoy.
fall passion world
Charles Dickens You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?
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Alan Cooper Form follows function straight to hell.
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Ben Stiller What the hell am I doing with my life?
hell unfair capitalism
Charlie Munger I regard it as very unfair, but capitalism without failure is like religion without hell.
hell percentages term
Charlie Munger Berkshireis not as good as it was in terms of percentage compounding [going forward], but it's still a hell of a business.
hell economics ifs
Charlie Munger How could economics not be behavioral? If it isn't behavioral, what the hell is it?
hell cunning
William Shakespeare The cunning livery of hell.
hell scholarship word-of-god
Billy Sunday When the word of God says one thing and scholarship says another, scholarship can go to hell.
hell absence
Edmund White Hell is God's Absence.
hell hold time tried
Wally Sanchez They tried like hell to penetrate, time after time. So for us to hold them to 46 points, I think that's great.