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failure failures god heaven lack reason restrained weak
We are feeble, weak and impoverished because of our failure to pray. God is restrained in doing because we are restrained by reason of our non-praying. All failures in securing heaven are traceable to lack of prayer or misdirected petition. Edward McKendree Bounds
failures intelligence intelligence-and-intellectuals late learn since
It is not too late to learn how other intelligence failures since 9/11 can be corrected. Edward Markey
failure men political
A university is not a service station. Neither is it a political society, nor a meeting place for political societies. With all its limitations and failures, and they are invariably many, it is the best and most benign side of our society insofar as that society aims to cherish the human mind. Richard Hofstadter
failure effort
He only is exempt from failures who makes no efforts. Richard Whately
failure past design
Complaints are vain; we will try to. do better another time. To-morrow and to-morrow. A few designs and a few failures, and the time of designing is past. Samuel Johnson
failure adversity men
Adversity, if a man is set down to it by degrees, is more supportable with equanimity by most people than any great prosperity arrived at in a single lifetime. Samuel Butler
failure fall degrees
To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall. Robert Louis Stevenson
failure trying-different-things trying-new-things
The greatest failure is the failure to try. William Arthur Ward
failure england failing
What stands if Freedom fail? What dies of England live? Rudyard Kipling
envy causes misery
There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.
envy common incessant
That incessant envy wherewith the common rate of mankind pursues all superior natures to their own. Jonathan Swift
envy gossip criticism
Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead. Mark Twain
envy insult accepted
The same goes for envy, anger and insults - said the master. - When they are not accepted, they continue to belong to the one who carried them. Paulo Coelho
envy soul disorder
Of all the disorders in the soul, envy is the only one no one confesses to. Plutarch
envy human-nature humans
Envy is human nature. Monica Bellucci
envy tree goats
If poisonous minerals, and if that tree, Whose fruit threw death on else immortal us, If lecherous goats, if serpents envious Cannot be damned; alas; why should I be? John Donne
envy doe praise
Elisabeth, again, while she praises her, is so far from hiding the Divine glory, that she ascribes everything to God. And yet, though she acknowledges the superiority of Mary to herself and to others, she does not envy her the higher distinction, but modestly declares that she had obtained more than she deserved. John Calvin
envy reassurance illusion
The happiness of being envied is glamour. Being envied is a solitary form of reassurance. It depends precisely upon not sharing your experience with those who envy you. You are observed with interest but you do not observe with interest - if you do, you will become less enviable. In this respect the envied are like bureaucrats; the more impersonal they are, the greater the illusion (for themselves and for others) of their power. The power of the glamorous resides in their supposed happiness: the power of the bureaucrat in his supposed authority. John Berger
political scientific
Here's the data. This is not a political position, it's just scientific data.
political revolution consciousness
Total revolution of consciousness and our entire social, political and economic system is what interests me, but that's not on the ballot. Russell Brand
political synthesis moral
The poet has to make a synthesis out of the moral life of our time, and this life is lived at this moment on a political plane. Rose Macaulay
political trying various
Certainly there are various trans-Islamic political movements, which try to appeal to Muslims in all societies Samuel P. Huntington
political communism
What was wrong with communism wasn't aberrant leadership, it was communism. William F. Buckley, Jr.
political hell chad
Where the hell is Chad? Richard M. Nixon
political resigning
I have impeached myself by resigning.
political politician criteria
Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion. Robert Caro
political journalism foolish
Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons was I wanted to explain how things really work, how political power really works.