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passion pride ill-will
Charles Dickens There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us.
passion hunting breasts
Charles Dickens There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
passion exercise order
Charles Caleb Colton Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused.
passion greed may
Charles Caleb Colton The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
passion sloth causes
Charles Caleb Colton There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are excited in the cause. Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues; and the best of us are better when roused.
passion swings giving
Charles Caleb Colton By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about as reasonable as to expect that the tiger will spare the hart to browse upon the herbage.
passion men wind
Charles Caleb Colton The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, "like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.
passion suffering blinded
Charles Caleb Colton So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.
successful mislead-us watches
Charles Caleb Colton Falsehood is never so successful as when she baits her hook with truth, and no opinions so fatally mislead us as those that are not wholly wrong, as no watches so effectively deceive the wearer as those that are sometimes right.
successful causes flourishing
Charles Sturt The increasing importance of Sydney must in some measure be attributed to the flourishing condition of the colony itself, to the industry of its farmers, to the successful enterprise of its merchants, and to particular local causes.
successful men errors
Charles Spurgeon Complicity with error will take from the best of men the power to enter any successful protest against it.
successful mud viruses
Alan Moore Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.
successful coins tossers
Alan Greenspan The probability of ten consecutive heads is 0.1 percent; thus, when you have millions of coin tossers, or investors, in the end there will be thousands of very successful practitioners of coin tossing, or stock picking.
successful stuff way
Alan Greenspan Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. No one has ever eliminated any of that stuff.
successful thinking next
Alan Bennett The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's much easier to follow something that's not been as successful as this.
successful strive do-the-best
Alan Ball Not everything is going to be successful. To strive for that is really naive. You just do the best you can do.
successful animal different
Alan Alda We're highly social animals - I'm told by scientists that what makes us different from other animals is an acute social awareness, which is what has made us so successful.
science uniforms taste
Charles Caleb Colton In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.
science disorder cures
Charles Caleb Colton No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.
science mind cost
Charles Caleb Colton The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.
science tolerance religion
Alan Watts We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of the physician. You know, of course, that in ancient times there was no clear distinction between priest and physician.
science law statistics
Edward Gibbon The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
science geometry
David Hilbert Geometry is the most complete science.
science mind problem
David Hilbert He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.
science past imagination
David Hume We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in all past instances have been found inseparable. We cannot penetrate into the reason of the conjunction. We only observe the thing itself, and always find that from the constant conjunction the objects acquire an union in the imagination.
science intelligent winning
Astro Teller Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world a better place. To win that knowledge, though, our species will have to trade in another piece of its vanity.