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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.
water listening erratic
Charles Dickens The talker has found a hearer but not a listener; and though he may talk his very best for his own sake, you will find that his mental movements are erratic: they have no fixed centre and no definite object. His talk is like the water of a canal whose banks have given way, which rolls aimlessly hither and thither, without fulfilling any useful function, though it is the same water which was so helpful and serviceable, when it was confined within clearly marked limits by the restraining force of its earthy boundaries.
water wet
Alan Watts You can't get wet from the word 'water.'
water mind trying
Alan Watts Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.
water risk venture
David Viscott Even those who venture to dip a toe in the pond of risk never allow themselves to get used to the water.
water colour wet
David Hockney Water colours are wet colours in water.
water creative guy
Dee Snider I tested the waters on producing a record, but I'm more of a creative guy... I can't get into minute details
water rosemary herbs
Agnes Varda My company is called Ciné-Tamaris, which is rosemary. That's my speed. Hot water and herb.
water charity tanks
Chanakya As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity.
water parent kitchen
Charlaine Harris This letter is written on the skin of one of the water sprites who drowned your parents.' 'Ick!' I cried, and dropped the letter on the kitchen table.
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.