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character interesting people
... what such people miscall their religion, is a vent for their bad humours and arrogance. Charles Dickens
character past men
As I said just now, the world has gone past me. I don't blame it; but I no longer understand it. Tradesmen are not the same as they used to be, apprentices are not the same, business is not the same, business commodities are not the same. Seven-eighths of my stock is old-fashioned. I am an old-fashioned man in an old-fashioned shop, in a street that is not the same as I remember it. I have fallen behind the time, and am too old to catch it again.
character eye names
If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face.
character interesting long
"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."
character boys thinking
"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."
character half tongue
Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well. Charles Caleb Colton
character abuse criticism
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.
character men support
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
character suffering peculiar
Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.
suffering income cost
Annual income is £ 20, the cost is 19, you will feel happiness. If annual income of £ 20, the cost is £ 20.6, you will see suffering
suffering-pain expectations broken
I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
suffering reign france
The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.
suffering earth sickness
There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health. Charles Spurgeon
suffering saint seeds
Suffering saints are living seed.
suffering miserable-person wealth
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
suffering disease way
We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers. Alan Watts
suffering problem dies
If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.
suffering sake christ
If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake. Aiden Wilson Tozer
peculiar life-is
One's life is peculiar to one's own when one has invented it. Djuna Barnes
peculiar unusual
The process of being filmed was, I found, peculiar but not discomfiting. At 13, you are malleable, adaptable, better able to take the unusual in your stride. James Lovegrove
peculiar ridiculous
Everything is ultimately peculiar and ultimately ridiculous. Thomas Ligotti
peculiar noble painting
Painting with all its technicalities, difficulties, and peculiar ends, is nothing but a noble and expressive language, invaluable as the vehicle of thought, but by itself nothing. John Ruskin
peculiar bourgeoisie horror
It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times -- the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie -- seem attractive by comparison. Christopher Lasch
peculiar
You don't have to be peculiar to find God, Evelyn Underhill
peculiar impossible ifs
The word impossible is peculiar because if you examine it closely, you'll find that most of it is possible. Evan Esar
peculiar location problem
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location. Flannery O'Connor
peculiar intimate muscles
Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will. G. Stanley Hall