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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 sight sore-eyes
Charles Dickens the sight of me is good for sore eyes
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.
able definitions want
Alan Watts You will never get to the irreducible definition of anything because you will never be able to explain why you want to explain, and so on. The system will gobble itself up.
able bodhisattva preaching
Alan Watts So the bodhisattva saves all beings, not by preaching sermons to them, but by showing them that they are delivered, they are liberated, by the act of not being able to stop changing.
able indecision plans
Alan Rickman I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
able wonderful goodness
Aiden Wilson Tozer The goodness of God is infinitely more wonderful than we will ever be able to comprehend.
able cubs pipers
Edward James Olmos When you're asked to fly a 747 you better at least be able to fly a Piper cub
able sound computer
David Tudor I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.
able lost havens
David Duchovny I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.
able tasks speed
Ben Stiller Stiller was able to reach speeds of around 35 miles per hour, no small task for someone who had never longboarded before.
able outrage outraged
Barney Frank They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.
looks world eternity
Charles Caleb Colton He that will often put eternity and the world before him, and who will dare to look steadfastly at both of them, will find that the more often he contemplates them, the former will grow greater, and the latter less.
looks world way
Charles Spurgeon Secularism teaches us that we ought to look to this world. Christianity teaches us that the best way to prepare for this world is to be fully prepared for the next.
looks may helping
Charles Spurgeon The preacher's work is to throw sinners down into utter helplessness that they may be compelled to look up to Him Who alone can help them.
looks sin
Charles Spurgeon He who looks sinward has his back to God-he who looks Godward has his back to sin.
looks worship ifs
Charles Spurgeon Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.
looks world environment
Alan Watts Increasingly, the world around us looks as if we hated it.
looks plant gardener
Alan Chadwick A good gardener looks at every plant every day.
looks want mental-health
Alan Ball I'm at the point in my life where I don't want to work as hard. Actually, I've had to take a good hard look at workaholism and it's effect on one's mental health.
looks taste devils-advocate
Al Pacino Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste, but don't swallow.