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life strong truth
Charles Dickens There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
life saying-goodbye expectations
Charles Dickens Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.
life autism world
Charles Dickens This is a world of action, and not moping and droning in.
life moral existence
Charles Dickens Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.
life littles
Charles Dickens Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.
life people astonishing
Charles Caleb Colton It is astonishing how much more people are interested in lengthening life than improving it.
life soul prison
Charles Caleb Colton Life is the jailer of the soul in this filthy prison, and its only deliverer is death.
life happiness dark
Charles Caleb Colton Much too oft we make life gloomy-- When happy we might be, If we gathered more of sunshine, And not dark shadows see.
happiness inspiring laughter
Charles Dickens There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
happiness money business
Charles Dickens Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
happiness law-of-attraction chains
Charles Dickens We forge the chains we wear in life.
happiness delight tricks
Charles Dickens Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.
happiness kings ambition
Charles Caleb Colton If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.
happiness wine emotional
Charles Caleb Colton We may lay in a stock of pleasures, as we would lay in a stock of wine, but if defer tasting them too long, we shall find that both are soured by age.
happiness poverty bread
Charles Caleb Colton To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
happiness clouds broken
Charles Caleb Colton What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.
happiness mistake ambition
Charles Caleb Colton Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
dark sky clouds
Charles Dickens It was very dark; but in the murky sky there were masses of cloud which shone with a lurid light, like monstrous heaps of copper that had been heated in a furnace, and were growing cold.
dark night clouds
Charles Dickens The night was dark, and a cold wind blew, driving the clouds, furiously and fast, before it. There was one black, gloomy mass that seemed to follow him: not hurrying in the wild chase with the others, but lingering sullenly behind, and gliding darkly and stealthily on. He often looked back at this, and, more than once, stopped to let it pass over; but, somehow, when he went forward again, it was still behind him, coming mournfully and slowly up, like a shadowy funeral train.
dark night thinking
Charles Dickens "Ay," said the Captain, reverentially; "it's a almighty element. There's wonders in the deep, my pretty. Think on it when the winds is roaring and the waves is rowling. Think on it when the stormy nights is so pitch dark," said the Captain, solemnly holding up his hook, "as you can't see your hand afore you, excepting when the wiwid lightning reweals the same; and when you drive, drive, drive through the storm and dark, as if you was a driving, head on, to the world without end."
dark skulls clubs
Charles Stross A dark-skinned human with four arms walks toward me across the floor of the club, clad only in a belt strung with human skulls.
dark light trust-in-god
Charles Spurgeon To trust God in the light is nothing, but trust him in the dark-that is faith.
dark men sight
Charles Spurgeon The reputations of the Lord's people should be very precious in our sight...We may ourselves one of these dark days need forbearance and silence from our brethren, let us render it cheerfully to those who require it now. Be this our family rule, and our personal bond: Speak evil of no man.
dark flames age
Charles Spurgeon The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ is in the midst of the flame with her.
dark moon excellence
Alan Parsons The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.
dark moon demand
Alan Parsons The Dark Side of the Moon is a fine album with a textural and conceptual richness that not only invites, but demands involvement. There is a certain grandeur.