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children conducting herds
Charles Dickens and, unlike the celebrated herd in the poem, they were not forty children conducting themselves as one, but every child was conducting itself like forty.
children kissing may
Charles Dickens Before I go," he said, and paused -- "I may kiss her?" It was remembered afterwards that when he bent down and touched her face with his lips, he murmured some words. The child, who was nearest to him, told them afterwards, and told her grandchildren when she was a handsome old lady, that she heard him say, "A life you love.
children wife desire
Charles Dickens If Husain (as) had fought to quench his worldly desires…then I do not understand why his sister, wife, and children accompanied him. It stands to reason therefore, that he sacrificed purely for Islam.
children pride men
Charles Dickens There is not a manufacturer or tradesman in existence, who would not employ a man who takes a reasonable degree of pride in the appearance of himself and those about him, in preference to a sullen, slovenly fellow, who works doggedly on, regardless of his own clothing and that of his wife and children, and seeming to take pleasure or pride in nothing.
children father heart
Charles Dickens Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor. With such people the gray head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well-spent life.
children sea play
Charles Dickens There is nothing--no, nothing--innocent or good, that dies and is forgotten; let us hold to that faith or none. An infant, a prattling child, dying in the cradle, will live again in the better thoughts of those that loved it, and play its part through them in the redeeming actions of the world, though its body be burnt to ashes or drowned in the deep sea.
children parenting expectations
Charles Dickens In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.
children grieving two
Charles Dickens It always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity, two of the best qualities that heaven gives them, and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.
flower memorable thinking
Charles Dickens Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day.
flower sleep eye
Charles Dickens The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.
flower thinking may
Charles Caleb Colton Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead.
flower eye scary
Charles Dickens I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes.
flower rain believe
Charles Spurgeon The more a church flourishes, the more, I believe, do hypocrites get in, just as you see many a noxious creeping thing come and get in a garden after a shower of rain. The very things that make glad the flowers bring out these noxious things. And so hypocrites get in and steal much of the church's sap away.
flower giving perfume
Charles Spurgeon Give because you love to give - as the flower pours forth its perfume.
flower garden scripture
Charles Spurgeon No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double, but sevenfold; they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance.
flower humility garden
Charles Spurgeon True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden.
flower long realizing
Alan Watts You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe.
sky bird emptiness
Chogyam Trungpa Good and bad, happy and sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.
sky sitting sun
China Mieville Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.
sky muse
Arthur Rimbaud I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.
sky darkness fireworks
Natsuki Takaya We shall go wild with fireworks...And they will plunge into the sky and shatter the darkness. We don't have any fireworks that big
sky white light
Denise Levertov Praise the invisible sun burning beyond the white cold sky, giving us light and the chimney's shadow.
sky yellow parent
Denis Leary I'm born and raised in the Northeast. My parents are Irish immigrants. So our tendency is to shy away from the big yellow ball that comes up in the sky every once in a while.
sky steel world
Charlotte Bronte I like this day; I like that sky of steel; I like the sternness and stillness of the world under this frost.
sky body bikinis
Charlaine Harris My bodyguard was mowing the lawn in a pink bikini when the body fell from the sky.
sky fathom
Charles Baudelaire Music fathoms the sky.