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book knowledge men
Charles Caleb Colton Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
book reading writing
Charles Caleb Colton Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
book writing companion
Charles Caleb Colton With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.
book easy easy-to-get
Charles Caleb Colton It is always easy to shut a book, but not quite so easy to get rid of a lettered coxcomb.
book names want
Charles Caleb Colton If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good book, it wants it not.
book writing mirrors
Charles Caleb Colton That an author's work is the mirror of his mind is a position that has led to very false conclusions. If Satan himself were to write a book it would be in praise of virtue, because the good would purchase it for use, and the bad for ostentation.
book healing good-friend
Charles Caleb Colton Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.
book reading fire
Charles Dickens It can't be supposed," said Joe. "Tho' I'm oncommon fond of reading, too." Are you, Joe?" Oncommon. Give me," said Joe, "a good book, or a good newspaper, and sit me down afore a good fire, and I ask no better. Lord!" he continued, after rubbing his knees a little, "when you do come to a J and a O, and says you, 'Here, at last, is a J-O, Joe,' how interesting reading is!
house soul one-day
Alan Paton One day in Johannesburg, and already the tribe was being rebuilt, the house and soul being restored.
house suits fine
Alan Rickman If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.
house want pins
Al Sharpton If Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.
house clinton obligation
Chris Christie It is our obligation to stop Hillary Clinton now and never let her get within 10 miles of the White House again.
house sitting window
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie That her relationship with him was like being content in a house but always sitting by the window and looking out
house sides paint
Edward Hopper What I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.
house elation sunlight
Edward Hopper There is a sort of elation about sunlight on the upper part of a house.
house inns masters
Edward Gibbon Bad roads and indifferent inns, ... the continual converse one is obliged to have with the vilest part of mankind - innkeepers, post-masters, and custom house officers.
house actors firsts
Eddie Marsan I was brought up in a house full of women; the first time I realised no one was interrupting me was when I was on stage - that's probably the subconscious reason I became an actor.
age way young
Charles Dickens I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.
age waste excess
Charles Caleb Colton The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age.
age matter fairytale
Charles Dickens In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.
age pay time-is-money
Charles Stross I've reached an age at which I'd rather pay more for something that "just works" than roll up my sleeves, reach for a spanner, and make it work. Time is money, and the older we get the less of it we've got left.
agents very-good turns
Alan Rickman I knew with Snape I was working as a double agent, as it turns out, and a very good one at that.
age towns my-family
Alan Jackson Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.
age golden golden-rule
Alan Alda Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you.
age church baptists
Al Sharpton My ordination in the Church of God in Christ was at age 9, and I later became a Baptist minister, which I am today.
age purpose dies
Al Sharpton Better to die of something than to die in old age of nothing.