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home anchors sea
Charles Dickens Home is like the ship at sea, Sailing on eternally; Oft the anchor forth we cast, But can never make it fast.
home house may
Charles Caleb Colton A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them.
home names together
Charles Dickens When I speak of home, I speak of the place where in default of a better--those I love are gathered together; and if that place where a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.
home stronger spokes
Charles Dickens Home is a word stronger than a magician ever spoke.
home words-of-wisdom said
Charles Dickens "We thought that, perhaps," said I, hesitating, "it is right to begin with the obligations of home, sir; and that, perhaps, while those are overlooked and neglected, no other duties can possibly be substituted for them."
home soul facts
Charles Stuart Calverley I've read in many a novel, that unless they've souls that grovel-- Folks prefer in fact a hovel to your dreary marble halls.
home pride men
Charles Studd Send us people with initiative, who can carry themselves and others too; such as need to be carried hamper the work and weaken those who should be spending their strength on the heathen. Weaklings should be nursed at home! If any have jealousy, prides, or talebearing traits lurking about them, do not send them, nor any who are prone to criticize. Send only Pauls and Timothys; men who are full of zeal, holiness and power. All others are hindrances. If you send us ten such men the work will be done.
home light shining
Charles Studd The light that shines farthest shines brightest nearest home.
pride sickness breaking-down
Charles Dickens There is something in sickness that breaks down the pride of manhood.
pride men becoming
Charles Caleb Colton There is this paradox in pride - it makes some men ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so.
pride keepers
Charles Caleb Colton Pride requires very costly food-its keeper's happiness.
pride self attractive
Charles Caleb Colton Pride, like the magnet, constantly points to one object, self; but, unlike the magnet, it has no attractive pole, but at all points repels.
pride may charity
Charles Caleb Colton Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.
pride common-sense prudence
Charles Caleb Colton Pedantry prides herself on being wrong by rules; while common sense is contented to be right without them.
pride cutting animal
Charles Caleb Colton The most ridiculous of all animals is a proud priest; he cannot use his own tools without cutting his own fingers.
pride self vanity
Charles Caleb Colton Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.
pride charity may
Charles Caleb Colton Many ... begin to make converts from motives of charity, but continue to do so from motives of pride. ... Charity is contented with exhortation and example, but pride is not to be so easily satisfied. ... Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of pride in it than of charity.
men perfection great-expectations
Charles Dickens The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply because I found her irresistible. Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. Once for all; I love her none the less because I knew it, and it had no more influence in restraining me, than if I had devoutly believed her to be human perfection.
men years practice
Charles Dickens Really, for a man who had been out of practice for so many years it was a splendid laugh!
men self world
Charles Dickens It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.
men words-of-wisdom aversion
Charles Dickens No one has the least regard for the man; with them all, he has been an object of avoidance, suspicion, and aversion; but the spark of life within him is curiously separable from himself now, and they have a deep interest in it, probably because it IS life, and they are living and must die.
men glasses light
Charles Dickens The sun,--the bright sun, that brings back, not light alone, but new life, and hope, and freshness to man--burst upon the crowded city in clear and radiant glory. Through costly-coloured glass and paper-mended window, through cathedral dome and rotten crevice, it shed its equal ray.
men tongue habit
Charles Dickens The habit of paying compliments kept a man's tongue oiled without any expense.
men words-of-wisdom daylight
Charles Dickens He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.
men sea waiting
Charles Dickens Time and tide will wait for no man, saith the adage. But all men have to wait for time and tide.
men way aging
Charles Dickens I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?