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hero remember knows
Aiden Wilson Tozer We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.
hero people villain
Chris Colfer People are not born heroes or villains; they’re created by the people around them.
hero thinking hunting
Chris Abani We are hunting the demons that haunt others. We get a smell and off we go. And you know why, Sunil? You know why we are so good at hunting the demons of others? Because we are so good, gifted even, at stalking and evading our own. But all demons hunters think that they are really heroes, and you know what all heroes need?
hero pride reflection
Edward Gibbon Julian was not insensible of the advantages of freedom. From his studies he had imbibed the spirit of ancient sages and heroes; his life and fortunes had depended on the caprice of a tyrant; and, when he ascended the throne, his pride was sometimes mortified by the reflection that the slaves who would not dare to censure his defects were not worthy to applaud his virtues.
hero faces danger
Edmond Rostand To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.
hero thinking slugs
Ed Belfour One minute you're a slug and the next minute you're a hero, so you don't know what to think.
hero writing may
David Remnick A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.
hero class community
David Riesman There has been a change in heroes within the working-class community
men listening wish
Charles Dickens Of all bad listeners, the worst and most terrible to encounter is the man who is so fond of listening that he wishes to hear, not only your conversation, but that of every other person in the room.
men
Charles Dickens Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day.
men brotherhood common
Charles Dickens The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.
men fellow-man spirit
Charles Dickens It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.
men laughing people
Charles Dickens When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
men judging world
Charles Dickens Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.
men talking two
Charles Caleb Colton When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.
men years two
Charles Caleb Colton No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.
men two rogues
Charles Caleb Colton There are two modes of establishing our reputation; to be praised by honest men, and to be abused by rogues.
giving credit world
Charles Caleb Colton Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.
giving heaven littles
Charles Spurgeon There is nothing little in God; His mercy is like Himself-it is infinite. You cannot measure it. His mercy is so great that it forgives great sins to great sinners, after great lengths of time, and then gives great favours and great privileges, and raises us up to great enjoyments in the great heaven of the great God.
giving christ repentance
Charles Spurgeon Repentance will not make you see Christ; but to see Christ will give you repentance.
giving way stewardship
Charles Spurgeon Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.
giving people church
Charles Spurgeon If you have to give a carnival to get people to come to church, then you will have to keep giving carnivals to keep them coming back.
giving way
Charles Spurgeon God has a way of giving by the cartloads to those who give away by shovelfuls.
giving-up giving heaven
Charles Spurgeon You must either give up your sins or give up all hope of heaven.
giving heaven spurgeon
Charles Spurgeon If when I get to heaven the Lord shall say to me, Spurgeon, I want you to preach for all eternity, I would reply, Lord, give me a Bible, that is all I need.
giving soul satisfaction
Charles Spurgeon My soul has learned yet more fully than ever, this day, that there is no satisfaction to be found in earthly things-God alone can give rest to my spirit.