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people literature may
Charles Dickens May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
people words-of-wisdom facts
Charles Dickens Affery, like greater people, had always been right in her facts, and always wrong in the theories she deduced from them.
people coats holiness
Charles Dickens Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.
people may medical
Charles Caleb Colton It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
people solitude multitudes
Charles Dickens A multitude of people and yet solitude.
people governing whole
Charles Dickens My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Charles Dickens Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Charles Dickens Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
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 acting together
Alan Arkin Improvisation sometimes seemed more like jazz than acting, like verbal jazz, with the actors playing a theme back and forth, and then introducing another theme, incorporating it, somehow trying to work their way all together to a meaning of some kind, or at least a conclusion.
done literature harm
Charles Caleb Colton When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
done lost
Charles Dickens Nothing of what is nobly done is ever lost.
done half christ
Charles Spurgeon If you are saved, the work is only half done until you are employed to bring others to Christ.
done littles lord
Charles Spurgeon Say much of what the Lord has done for you, but say little of what you have done for the Lord.
done soy christ
Charles Spurgeon Mi fe no descansa en lo que soy, o lo que seré, o como me siento, o lo que sé, sino en lo que Cristo és, en lo que él ha hecho, y en lo que él está haciendo en mí - My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me.
done language human-nature
Alan Bishop I don't speak anything very well. The longer that you travel, you find out that you really don't even need to speak the language to get around and get things done, to live in those places. If you're somewhat resourceful and perceptive, you're pretty much going to know what's going on because human nature is human nature: they understand it, you understand it, and it works.
done doe drainage
Alan Brien I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage.
done court understood
Alain Robert Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done.
done
Alan Alda Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won't do what you've done before.