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eye home dark
Charles Dickens Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world.
eye numbers envy
Charles Caleb Colton As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of envy, notwithstanding their number, ought not to wound our virtue by reason of their insignificance.
eye men thinking
Charles Dickens I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music.
eye hands evil
Charles Dickens But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless.
eye hypocrisy shining
Charles Dickens [S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.
eye mad black
Charles Dickens An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror.
eye light skins
Charles Dickens With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing.
eye thoughtful great-expectations
Charles Dickens She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good.
trying sometimes failing
Charles Dickens Try to do unto others as you would have them do to you, and do not be discouraged if they fail sometimes. It is much better that they should fail than you should.
trying want scripture
Charles Spurgeon Dear friends, whenever you want to understand a text of Scripture, try to read the original
trying littles reason-why
Charles Spurgeon The great reason why we have so little good preaching is that we have so little piety. To be eloquent one must be in earnest; he must not only act as if he were in earnest, or try to be in earnest, but be in earnest.
trying world term
Alan Watts A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
trying world
Alan Watts But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
trying way hurrying
Alan Watts Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present.
trying rooms natural
Alan Parsons That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.
trying entertainment television
Alan Moore I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.
trying waste firsts
Alan Ball I'm a huge freak, and always have been. I spent the first part of my life trying really desperately not to be one, and it was just a waste of time.
unions communism china
Bill Ayers When I was young, communism, which had a certain allure to me, was clearly a failed experiment in the Soviet Union and in China. And yet, anti-communism was as bad.
unions degrees different
Brian Herbert Humans are different in private than in the presence of others. While the private persona merges into the social persona in varying degrees, the union is never complete. Something is always held back.
unions facts quitting
Arthur Schopenhauer Reasonable and vicious are quite consistent with each other, in fact, only through their union are great and far-reaching crimes possible
unions classic blokes
Clive James Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.
unions soviet-union capability
Alexander Haig More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.
unions unjust would-be
Albert Camus It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare.
unions study economic
Anatoly Chubais It was almost forbidden in the Soviet Union to study the New Economic Policy.
unions trouble projects
Timothy Garton Ash The whole project of European Union is one in deep trouble.
unions separation states
Thomas Jefferson If any state in the Union will declare that it prefers separation... to a continuance in union... I have no hesitation in saying, 'let us separate.