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book knowledge men
Charles Caleb Colton Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
book reading writing
Charles Caleb Colton Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
book writing companion
Charles Caleb Colton With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.
book men soul
Charles Caleb Colton He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
book easy easy-to-get
Charles Caleb Colton It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.
book names want
Charles Caleb Colton If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.
book writing mirrors
Charles Caleb Colton That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan himself were to write a book it would be in praise of virtue, because the good would purchase it for use, and the bad for ostentation.
book healthy may
Charles Caleb Colton Novels may teach us as wholesome a moral as the pulpit. There are "sermons in stones," in healthy books, and "good in everything.
use ham radio
Charles Simonyi HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.
use lord preacher
Charles Spurgeon I know perfectly well that, wherever I go and preach, there are many better preachers ... than I am; all that I can say about it is that the Lord uses me.
use saint sickness
Charles Spurgeon Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has.
use tests
Aiden Wilson Tozer God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.
use energy should
Chogyam Trungpa We should see money in terms of the expenditure of energy and how we are going to transmute that energy into a proper use.
use world pay
Chinua Achebe The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use.
use bigs type
China Machado I would never become a big, big model in the commercial sense because I was such a type; you couldn't use me in everything.
used glamorous used-to-be
China Chow I used to be more glamorous.
use speech different
Edward Hirsch Language is an impure medium. Speech is public property and words are the soiled products, not of nature, but of society, which circulates and uses them for a thousand different ends.