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Charles Caleb Colton Avarice begets more vices than Priam did children and like Priam survives them all. It starves its keeper to surfeit those who wish him dead, and makes him submit to more mortifications to lose heaven than the martyr undergoes to gain it.
children believe streets
Charles Dickens The streets looked small, of course. The streets that we have only seen as children always do I believe when we go back to them
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Charles Dickens That, they never could lay their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never tolerate the idea of their wives laying their heads upon their pillows; that, they could never endure the notion of their children laying their heads on their pillows; in short , that there never more could be , for them or theirs , any laying of heads upon pillows at all , unless the prisioner's head was taken off. The Attorney General during the trial of Mr. Darnay
children pride men
Charles Dickens Send forth the child and childish man together, and blush for the pride that libels our own old happy state, and gives its title to an ugly and distorted image.
children character eye
Charles Dickens He was a very young boy; quite a little child. His hair still hung in curls about his face, and his eyes were very bright; but their light was of Heaven, not earth.
children character pride
Charles Dickens "A child!" said Edith, looking at her. "When was I a child? What childhood did you ever leave to me? I was a woman - artful, designing, mercenary, laying snares for men - before I knew myself, or you, or even understood the base and wretched aim of every new display I learnt. You gave birth to a woman. Look upon her. She is in her pride tonight."
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Charles Dickens I never see any difference in boys. I only know two sorts of boys. Mealy boys and beef-faced boys.
people may medical
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people next cleanliness
Charles Dickens Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
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Charles Dickens I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
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Charles Studd Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.
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people church opinion
Charles Stanley I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.
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Charles Spurgeon The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.
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Charles Spurgeon People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.
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Charles Caleb Colton That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published, if he does not command success, has at least deserved it.
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Charles Spurgeon If your faith does not make you pray, have nothing to do with it; get rid of it, and God help thee to begin again.
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doe lines matter
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doe absence
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doe happy-endings
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doe chiefs
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doe
Edith Piaf Death does not exist.
doe too-much
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