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children knowledge enemy
Religion has treated knowledge sometimes as an enemy, sometimes as a hostage; often as a captive and more often as a child; but knowledge has become of age, and religion must either renounce her acquaintance, or introduce her as a companion and respect her as a friend. Charles Caleb Colton
children gambling parent
Gaming is the child of avarice, but the parent of prodigality.
children heaven wish
Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.
children believe streets
The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them Charles Dickens
children taken ideas
That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never endure the notion of their children laying their heads on their pillows; in short , that there never more could be , for them or theirs , any laying of heads upon pillows at all , unless the prisioner's head was taken off. The Attorney General during the trial of Mr. Darnay
children pride men
Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
children character eye
He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth.
children character pride
"A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."
children boys two
I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.
desire holiness repentance
Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated. Charles Spurgeon
desire alive sin
When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.
desire desire-for-success fear-of-failure
The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do Alan Moore
desire spirit holy
When we have the Holy Spirit we have all that is needed to be all that God desires us to be. Aiden Wilson Tozer
desire may grants
May God grant us a desire for God that supersedes all other desires.
desire genocide treated
I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated very badly with something that was called genocide in those days. Chinua Achebe
desire intense stage
You feel the intense desire to do good, to do right thing. At this stage, you also feel helpless. Chin-Ning Chu
desire crosses chosen
One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross. Edith Stein
desire balance sound
The desire for symmetry, for balance, for rhythm in form as well as in sound, is one of the most inveterate of human instincts. Edith Wharton
poison shut
Well, if there's poison in the beer, you shut down St. Patty's day, Pat Buchanan
poison raisins tarts
The poison dart hidden in the raisin tart. ... Christopher Paolini
poison cures
Briarwood is the pretty poison. There is no cure for Briarwood. Anne Bishop
poison havens
Money poisons you when you've got it, and starves you when you haven't. D. H. Lawrence
poison persons angry-person
An angry person is always full of poison. Confucius
poison truth-is certain
There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison. Andre Maurois
poison disease soil
The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil. Simone Weil
poison mud
Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud, Hatch out. Tiberius
poison eras saws
The era itself has nothing to do with anything. We weren't really attached to that at all. I just saw this thing where they had a Poison concert on VH1, and to me, that is being attached to an era. Slash