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mean secret purpose
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation. Charles Caleb Colton
mean men light
Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.
mean gossip secret
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
mean advice asks
We ask advice but we mean approbation.
mean propriety disciple
Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.
mean love-is effort
Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort. Charles Dickens
mean land consideration
The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence. Charles Sturt
mean plot use
Personally, I avoid deus ex machina like the plague - if you have to use one, it means you failed to set up the universe and the plot properly. It's like a whodunnit where there's no actual way for the reader to identify the perpetrator before the climactic reveal: there's no sense of closure for the reader. Charles Stross
mean trust-in-god
Trusting God means looking beyond what we can see to what God sees. Charles Stanley
egotism better-than-you
I ain't saying that I'm better than you, but maybe I am. Randy Newman
egotism
Nothing is more to me than myself. Max Stirner
egotism knows
You know I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it. Michael Jackson
egotism detached observers
Hamlet is egotism as it appears to itself, and Don Quixote is egotism as it appears to the detached observer. Hugh Kingsmill
egotism felt gravity impress orleans people sleep
I could never sleep if I felt like I didn't do everything that I could to impress upon people the gravity of the situation, ... New Orleans is never going to be the same. Max Mayfield
egotism eighty narcissism paradox people percent streak
The paradox about narcissism is that we all have this streak of egotism. Eighty percent of people think they're better than average.
egotism wells knows
I know perfectly well my own egotism. Walt Whitman
turns satisfying limitation
How completely satisfying to turn from [our] limitations to a God who has none. Aiden Wilson Tozer
turns marvelous guise
Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise. Denise Levertov
turns
As it turns out, ... he just can't spell.
turns
A really big at-bat for us, ... The kind of at-bat that turns game. Cliff Floyd
turns wheel
Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns turns. Lorne Michaels
turns
I'm not somebody that opens a playbook and just turns and reads and reads. That doesn't do it for me. Tim Tebow
turns indication ifs
If history is any indication, all truths will eventually turn out to be false. Dean Kamen
turns humans
God turns toward the very places from which humans turn away.... Dietrich Bonhoeffer
turns magnificent
It turns out that there is something more magnificent than nature. It's love. Ben Harper