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children conducting herds
Charles Dickens and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.
children kissing may
Charles Dickens Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.
children wife desire
Charles Dickens If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires…then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore, that he sacrificed purely for Islam.
children pride men
Charles Dickens There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the appearance of himself and those about him, in preference to a sullen, slovenly fellow, who works doggedly on, regardless of his own clothing and that of his wife and children, and seeming to take pleasure or pride in nothing.
children father heart
Charles Dickens Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.
children sea play
Charles Dickens There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.
children parenting expectations
Charles Dickens In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
children grieving two
Charles Dickens It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.
looks world eternity
Charles Caleb Colton He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.
looks world way
Charles Spurgeon Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next.
looks may helping
Charles Spurgeon The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.
looks sin
Charles Spurgeon He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.
looks worship ifs
Charles Spurgeon Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.
looks world environment
Alan Watts Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.
looks plant gardener
Alan Chadwick A good gardener looks at every plant every day.
looks want mental-health
Alan Ball I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.
looks taste devils-advocate
Al Pacino Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow.
fine source benevolence
Charles Caleb Colton That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
fine i-can
Chris Bosh I can motivate myself fine just by wanting to be my best.
fine moved pleasure
Jean Bruyere The pleasure of criticizing robs us of the pleasure of being moved by some very fine things.
fine improve race rebuilding techniques trying
Janis Serrano We're in a rebuilding process, we're doing fine for where we're at. We're just trying to improve on their race techniques and have them do their best.
finer practice rigor tie wear
Tim Zagat Where it was once de rigueur to wear a tie in New York's finer establishments, that practice is now de rigor mortis.
finest men talked
Sam Perlozzo When you talked about the Orioles, you talked about Elrod. Elrod Hendricks was one of the finest men I have ever met.
finest emperor plans
Bertolt Brecht The finest plans are always ruined by the littleness of those who ought to carry them out, for emperor himself can actually be nothing.
finest spoiled should
Bertolt Brecht The finest plans have always been spoiled by the littleness of them that should carry them out. Even emperors can't do it all by themselves.
fine-china fine china
Bill Belichick We're not polishing fine china here.