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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.
religion crime thousand
Charles Caleb Colton Where true religion has prevented one crime, false religions have afforded a pretext for a thousand.
religion whole department
Alan Watts Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it.
religion ordinary deities
Edward Gibbon Every event, or appearance, or accident, which seems to deviate from the ordinary course of nature has been rashly ascribed to the immediate action of the Deity.
religion atheism might
Edward Gibbon The gravest of the ecclesiastical historians, Eusebius himself, indirectly confesses that he has related whatever might redound to the glory, and that he has suppressed all that could tend to the disgrace, of religion.
religion said wells
Kurt Vonnegut What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.
religion baths doe
Billy Sunday They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.
religion earth return
Bertrand Russell This, however, is a passing nightmare; in time the earth will become again incapable of supporting life, and peace will return.
religion battle faces
Bertrand Russell No Carthaginian denied Moloch, because to do so would have required more courage that was required to face death in battle.
religion causes world
Bertrand Russell If everything has a cause, then God must have a cause. If there can be anything without a cause, it may just be the world as God...
atheism three wealth
Charles Caleb Colton The three great apostles of practical atheism, that make converts without persecuting, and retain them without preaching, are wealth, health and power.
atheism divine sovereignty
Charles Spurgeon Opposition to divine sovereignty is essentially atheism.
atheism today socialism
August Bebel We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.
atheism foxholes chaplains
Kurt Vonnegut There's a Chaplain who never visited the front.
atheism movement goes-on
Charlotte Perkins Gilman The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.
atheism affirmation made
Charles Bradlaugh Idle and meaningless ... a form less solemn to me than the affirmation I would have reverently made.
atheism public-opinion court
Charles Bradlaugh There is a court to which I shall appeal: the court of public opinion.
atheism liberty chiefs
Charles Bradlaugh Liberty's chief foe is theology.
atheism doe without-god
Charles Bradlaugh Atheism is without God. It does not assert no God.