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self words-of-wisdom crowns
Charles Dickens All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!
self cells knaves
Charles Caleb Colton Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave!
self abuse doe
Charles Caleb Colton He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.
self order should
Charles Caleb Colton Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.
self-esteem war loser
Charles Caleb Colton We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
selfish character men
Charles Dickens Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.
selfish heart character
Charles Dickens Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.
self ecosystems space
Charles Stross I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life.
abuse rivals may
Charles Caleb Colton Adroit observers will find that some who affect to dislike flattery, may yet be flattered indirectly, by a well seasoned abuse and ridicule of their rivals.
abuse regulation problem
Chris Asplen It's one of the biggest problems with the system now. Vague regulations leave the system open to abuse.
abuse both community confident driving elect force good john power trust
Terri Jones The power here can be a driving force in the community for both good and bad, and so you have to elect someone you can trust to not abuse those powers, and I feel really confident that John is in that category.
abuse contracts potential
Robert Whiting The potential for abuse with these contracts is, and has been, a concern.
abuse agency applaud business clean coming consider courageous course extent fiscal forward full hours law managers mean misuse programs public reform resources run system taking urge worked
Gary Sherman We applaud the courageous person that made this referral, and congratulate our investigators and fiscal managers that have worked hundreds of hours investigating this case. We mean business when we say we are going to clean up programs and run a tighter ship. We will urge prosecution to the full extent of the law for those who abuse the system and misuse public resources taking them away from those who need them most. This agency is on course to reform its operations; those that are defrauding DSS may want to consider coming forward of their own accord.
abuse high issue school substance
John Pierce We are a high school of the 21st century, ... Instances of substance abuse are an issue and concern.
abuse freedom-of-speech denial
Charles Bradlaugh Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech.
abuse birth juliet
William Shakespeare Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use, Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse.
abuse agents explain government routine scapegoat unable
Jonathan Moyo When I was in government it was routine for these CIO agents and their factional counterparts in government and ZANU PF politicians to abuse me as a scapegoat for anything they were unable to explain or defend.
doe authorship command
Charles Caleb Colton That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.
doe helping praying
Charles Spurgeon If your faith does not make you pray, have nothing to do with it; get rid of it, and God help thee to begin again.
doe christ please
Charles Spurgeon If it does not glorify Christ, let it not console or please you.
doe convinced knows
Aiden Wilson Tozer I do not know why God does some things, but I am convinced that nothing is accidental in his universe.
doe way holy
Aiden Wilson Tozer Holy is the way God is. To be holy He does not conform to a standard. He IS that standard.
doe easy hard
Aiden Wilson Tozer God does not love us because we are hard or easy to love, He loves us because He is God.
doe lines matter
Chris Bohjalian But history does matter. There is a line connecting the Armenians and the Jews and the Cambodians and the Bosnians and the Rwandans. There are obviously more, but, really, how much genocide can one sentence handle?
doe absence
Chris Alexander Absence of failure does not constitute success.
doe happy-endings
Chita Rivera A lot of Americans like happy endings, but life does not necessarily have a happy ending.