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suicide loss gambling
Charles Caleb Colton The gamester, if he die a martyr to his profession, is doubly ruined. He adds his soul to every other loss, and by the act of suicide, renounces earth to forfeit Heaven.
suicide spiritual passion
Charles Spurgeon Do not commit spiritual suicide through a passion for discussing metaphysical subtleties.
suicide commitment mind
Alan Watts Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown.
suicide moving heart
Al Alvarez When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause and attend: the heart beats in your chest; outside, the trees are thick with new leaves, a swallow dips over them, the light moves, people are going about their business.
suicide house enemy
Chris Chocola Guantanamo Bay houses enemy combatants ranging from terrorist trainers and recruiters to bomb makers, would-be suicide bombers, and terrorist financiers.
suicide hands flattery
Edward Gibbon Flattery is a foolish suicide; she destroys herself with her own hands.
suicide age criminals
Edward Gibbon The criminal penalties [for suicide] are the production of a later and darker age.
suicide book reading
Ed Byrne No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.
hands world ifs
Charles Dickens if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.
hands feelings excess
Charles Caleb Colton The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.
hands class two
Charles Caleb Colton Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.
hands sorrow tears
Charles Dickens If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!
hands feet office
Charles Dickens Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
hands library grew
Charles Stross I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.
hands soul half
Charles Spurgeon I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.
hands despair rope
Charles Spurgeon Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.
hands soap calling
Charles Spurgeon There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.
flattery despise flattered
Charles Caleb Colton Some indeed there are who profess to despise all flattery, but even these are nevertheless to be flattered, by being told that they do despise it.
flattery imitation
Charles Caleb Colton Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
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Charles Caleb Colton Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
flattery
Alan Bradley To be most effective, flattery is always best applied with a trowel.
flattery invitations
Carolyn Wells Invitation is the sincerest flattery.
flattery rudeness deals
Charlotte Bronte I like rudeness a great deal better than flattery.
flattery praise satire
Benjamin Franklin Praise to the undeserving is severe satire.
flattery absurd seems
Benjamin Franklin A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word.
flattery
Benjamin Franklin Approve not of him who commends all you say.