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thinking people remember
Charles Caleb Colton A thorough-paced antiquary not only remembers what all other people have thought proper to forget, but he also forgets what all other people think is proper to remember.
thinking greed words-of-wisdom
Charles Dickens "As I think I told you once before," said I, "it is you who have been, in your greed and cunning, against all the world. It may be profitable to you to reflect, in future, that there never were greed and cunning in the world yet, that did not do too much, and overreach themselves. It is as certain as death."
thinking people noses
Charles Dickens I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.
thinking diversity different
Charles Dickens Them which is of other naturs thinks different.
thinking america impossible
Charles Dickens I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.
thinking pieces ships
Charles Dickens and it was not until I began to think, that I began fully to know how wrecked I was, and how the ship in which I had sailed was gone to pieces.
thinking light law
Charles Dickens The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through all its narrow turnings. Viewed by this light it becomes a coherent scheme, and not the monstrous maze the laity are apt to think it. Let them but once clearly perceive that its grand principle is to make business for itself at their expense, and surely they will cease to grumble.
thinking advice
Charles Stewart Parnell Get the advice of everybody whose advice is worth having - they are very few - and then do what you think best yourself.
yarn brain accuracy
Daniel Dennett It is not so much that we, using our brains, spin our yarns, as that our brains, using yarns, spin us.
yarn people trying
Dashiell Hammett A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.
yarn knitting bird
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee It is a little known fact that much like birds, who can always find north, knitters can always find yarn.
yarn labyrinth mazes
Soren Kierkegaard It will be easy for us once we receive the ball of yarn from Ariadne (love) and then go through all the mazes of the labyrinth (life) and kill the monster. But how many are there who plunge into life (the labyrinth) without taking that precaution?
yarn facts ends
Julia Glass When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.
yarn benches parks
O. Henry There are stories in everything. I've got some of my best yarns from park benches, lampposts, and newspaper stands.
yarn fiction legends
Wallace Stegner No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered in history, ballads, yarns, legends, or monuments. Fictions serve as well as facts.
long wit long-time
Charles Dickens Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.
long trials hardship
Charles Stanley You may go through difficulty, hardship, or trial—but as long as you are anchored to Him, you will have hope.
long might serving-god
Charles Spurgeon I long for nothing more earnestly than to serve God with all my might.
long people giving
Charles Spurgeon I am not the only one that condemns the idle; for once when I was going to give our minister a pretty long list of the sins of one of our people that he was asking after, I began with, "He's dreadfully lazy." "That's enough," said the old gentleman; " all sorts of sins are in that one.
long eternity endless
Charles Spurgeon Time, how short-eternity, how long! Death, how brief-immortali ty, how endless!
long doe christ
Charles Spurgeon He who does not long to know more of Christ, knows nothing of him yet.
long care doe
Charles Spurgeon Satan does not care whether he drags you down to hell as a Calvinist or as an Arminian, so long as he can get you there.
long effort mind
Alan Watts Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair of scales will suddenly turn over when a sufficient amount of material has been poured into one pan to overbalance the weight in the other. Hence it is an experience which generally occurs after a long and concentrated effort to discover the meaning of Zen.
long enlightenment standards
Alan Watts Enlightenment remains unrealized so long as it is considered as a specific state to be attained, and for which there are standards of success.