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love said blindness
Charles Dickens Love, though said to be afflicted with blindness, is a vigilant watchman.
love inspirational life
Charles Dickens A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
love writing ambition
Charles Dickens To be allowed to call her "Dora", to write to her, to dote upon and worship her, to have reason to think that when she was with other people she was yet mindful of me, seemed to me the summit of human ambition - I am sure it was the summit of mine.
love lost-youth ideas
Charles Dickens I don't remember who was there, except Dora. I have not the least idea what we had for dinner, besides Dora. My impression is, that I dined off Dora, entirely, and sent away half-a-dozen plates untouched. I sat next to her. I talked to her. She had the most delightful little voice, the gayest little laugh, the pleasantest and most fascinating little ways, that ever led a lost youth into hopeless slavery. She was rather diminutive altogether. So much the more precious, I thought.
love mind unhappy
Charles Dickens There can be no disparity in marriage like unsuitability of mind and purpose.
love friendship relationship
Charles Dickens Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.
love powerful disappointment
Charles Dickens Mystery and disappointment are not absolutely indispensable to the growth of love, but they are, very often, its powerful auxiliaries.
love honesty heart
Charles Dickens To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.
war ambition mean
Charles Caleb Colton For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.
war winning games
Charles Caleb Colton War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
war hands fog
Charles Caleb Colton Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
war opinion conflict
Charles Caleb Colton Wars of opinion, as they have been the most destructive, are also the most disgraceful of conflicts.
war writing fighting
Charles Caleb Colton Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
war long body
Charles Caleb Colton Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.
war heart character
Charles Dickens Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?
war believe blow
Charles Dickens I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.
war believe writing
Charles Stross There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet?
passion agriculture literature
Charles Dickens Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows - and china.
passion pride ill-will
Charles Dickens There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.
passion hunting breasts
Charles Dickens There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
passion exercise order
Charles Caleb Colton Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.
passion greed may
Charles Caleb Colton The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
passion sloth causes
Charles Caleb Colton There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are excited in the cause. Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues; and the best of us are better when roused.
passion swings giving
Charles Caleb Colton By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about as reasonable as to expect that the tiger will spare the hart to browse upon the herbage.
passion men wind
Charles Caleb Colton The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, "like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.
passion suffering blinded
Charles Caleb Colton So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.