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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.
strong mean men
Charles Dickens Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.
strong jobs men
Charles Caleb Colton No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers.
strong mind haste
Charles Caleb Colton Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
strong party reason
Charles Caleb Colton He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.
strong hands monsters
Charles Caleb Colton The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.
strong advice desire
Charles Caleb Colton When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.
strong passion may
Charles Caleb Colton Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
strong men thinking
Charles Caleb Colton Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.
strong circles errors
Charles Caleb Colton Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil.
truth greatness men
Charles Dickens It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
truth light lines
Charles Caleb Colton Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.
truth roots errors
Charles Caleb Colton It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors
truth honesty integrity
Charles Caleb Colton Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
truth common theory
Charles Caleb Colton Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
truth thinking hungry
Alanis Morissette I think everyone's hungry for the truth
truth lying heart
Alan Watts Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent.
truth unity duality
Alan Watts Duality is always secretly unity.
truth unfolding absolutes
Alan Arkin Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute.