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mean men light
Charles Caleb Colton Alas! What is man? Whether he be deprived of that light which is from on high, of whether he discard it, a frail and trembling creature; standing on time, that bleak and narrow isthmus between two eternities, he sees nothing but impenetrable darkness on the one hand, and doubt, distrust, and conjecture, still more perplexing, on the other. Most gladly would he take an observation, as to whence he has come, or whither he is going; alas, he has not the means: his telescope is too dim, his compass too wavering, his plummet too short.
mean gossip secret
Charles Caleb Colton None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.
mean advice asks
Charles Caleb Colton We ask advice but we mean approbation.
mean propriety disciple
Charles Caleb Colton Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.
mean love-is effort
Charles Dickens Constancy in love is a good thing; but it means nothing, and is nothing, without constancy in every kind of effort.
mean land consideration
Charles Sturt The main consideration with those who, possessing some capital, propose to emigrate as the means of improving their condition, is, the society likely to be found in the land fixed on for their future residence.
mean trust-in-god
Charles Stanley Trusting God means looking beyond what we can see to what God sees.
mean grace salvation
Charles Spurgeon Salvation is all grace, which means, free, gratis, for nothing.
human-nature abstinence appetite
Charles Dickens Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
human-nature lifeless permanent
Alan Watts The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless.
human-nature tendencies humans
Bill Maher Eell there always is a tendency in human nature to deify.
human-nature cheat free-market
Jane Smiley There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market.
human-nature economist humans
Jane Smiley English majors understand human nature better than economists do.
human-nature multitudes
Baltasar Gracian What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.
human-nature socialism economics
Ludwig von Mises German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.
human-nature conventions should
Denis Diderot It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it.
human-nature social institutions
Edward Abbey Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.
reasons various
Nick Flynn The only strategy I know of is to write every day, which I don't always do, because sometimes I just can't, for various reasons that seem out of my control.
reason cried
Carol Leifer I cried when I turned 34 for no other reason than 34 sounded old to me at the time.
reason form no-reason
Carlos Drummond de Andrade Be happy for no reason is the most authentic form of happiness
reason suspect
Leonardo Alcivar We have no reason to suspect this was anything other than, well, a burglary.
reason stand
Jack Rio We were at a disadvantage in the first half. I'm not going to stand here and say that was a reason we didn't play well.
reason accepting
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Never ever accept 'Because You Are A Woman' as a reason for doing or not doing anything.
reason fear-god persons
Beth Moore If a person fears God, she has no reason to fear anything else.
reason loving-god
Bernard of Clairvaux The reason for our loving God is God.
reason prove
William Shakespeare Words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them.