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spring communication winter
Charles Dickens It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.
spring adversity mind
Charles Caleb Colton There is an elasticity in the human mind, capable of bearing much, but which will not show itself, until a certain weight of affliction be put upon it; its powers may be compared to those vehicles whose springs are so contrived that they get on smoothly enough when loaded, but jolt confoundedly when they have nothing to bear.
spring sacrifice self
Charles Caleb Colton Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.
spring london parks
Charles Dickens If the parks be "the lungs of London" we wonder what Greenwich Fair is--a periodical breaking out, we suppose--a sort of spring rash.
spring dark light
Charles Dickens In the Destroyer's steps there spring up bright creations that defy his power, and his dark path becomes a way of light to Heaven.
spring sorrow affliction
Charles Spurgeon From all the afflictions, Your glory shall spring. And the deeper the sorrow, the louder you'll sing.
spring flower light
Charles Spurgeon A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light.
spring book sea
Charles Spurgeon You shall find books and sermons everywhere, in the land and in the sea, in the earth and in the skies, and you shall learn from every living beast, and bird, and fish, and insect, and from every useful or useless plant that springs from the ground.
adversity blessing sometimes
Charles Caleb Colton Sometimes the greatest adversities turn out to be the greatest blessings.
adversity extremes knows
Charles Caleb Colton He that has never suffered extreme adversity knows not the full extent of his own depravation.
adversity prosperity shrinks
Charles Caleb Colton He that swells in prosperity will be sure to shrink in adversity.
adversity half known
Charles Caleb Colton He that has never known adversity is but half acquainted with others, or with himself.
adversity doe needs
Charles Stanley Often times God demonstrates His faithfulness in adversity by providing for us what we need to survive. He does not change our painful circumstances. He sustains us through them.
adversity fire secret
Charles Spurgeon Many a text [of Scripture] is written in a secret ink which must be held to the fire of adversity to make it visible.
adversity suffering
Alan Watts But we must not suffer over the suffering.
adversity opportunity leader
Chip Conley When the world is in the midst of change, when adversity and opportunity are almost indistinguishable, this is the time for visionary leadership and when leaders need to look beyond the survival needs of those they're serving.
adversity men crosses
William Shakespeare A man I am cross'd with adversity.
mind colour new-thought
Charles Dickens New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.
mind body weakness
Charles Caleb Colton Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
mind gout body
Charles Caleb Colton As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
mind yoke foals
Charles Caleb Colton It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.
mind pay talent
Charles Caleb Colton Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.
mind toadstools insult
Charles Caleb Colton Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
mind needed ifs
Charles Stross You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.
mind christianity holy
Charles Spurgeon When filled with holy truth the mind rests.
mind states state-of-mind
Charles Spurgeon We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.