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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.
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?
luxury waiting silence
Audre Lorde For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.
luxury poetry-is
Audre Lorde Poetry is not a luxury.
luxury existence poetry-is
Audre Lorde For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.
luxury throwing
Mike Maddux We accomplished a lot. That's the luxury of throwing on the side. You can get things done.
luxury privilege free-will
Bertrand Russell The luxury to disparage freedom is the privilege of those who already possess it.
luxury people world
Agnetha Faltskog When I'm living in the world of luxury and celebrity, which is where I found myself for a large part of my life, it's a walk-on part. Not a vital necessity, like it is for so many people. I enjoy it but I can see right through it!
luxury tea delicacy
Charles Lamb Sassafras wood boiled down to a kind of tea, and tempered with an infusion of milk and sugar hath to some a delicacy beyond the China luxury.
luxury matter world
Carolina Herrera Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.
luxury income should
Calvin Trillin Money not spent on a luxury one considered even briefly is the equivalent of windfall income and should be spent accordingly.