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freedom butterfly deny
Charles Dickens I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.
freedom tyrants mind
Charles Caleb Colton Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
free-will contrary
Charles Spurgeon His will cannot be neutral or 'free' to act contrary to his nature.
freedom water leaving
Alan Watts As muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil.
free games line lost throws won
Dell Leonard We've won some big games at the line this year, and we've lost some at the line. We know how important free throws are.
freedom disappointment ego
Chogyam Trungpa Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment.
freedom nice air
Chogyam Trungpa When you drop your unnecessary things, you finally can swoop and fly in vast space. It is so blue, so bright, and so nice, so airy and fresh. You can stretch your wings and breathe the air. You can do anything you want. You have experienced cheerfulness and joy, and finally the bliss of freedom occurs in you.
freedom desire liberty
Edward Gibbon Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.
strong mean men
Charles Dickens Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, it by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.
strong jobs men
Charles Caleb Colton No two things differ more than hurry and dispatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one. A weak man in office, like a squirrel in a cage, is laboring eternally, but to no purpose, and is in constant motion without getting on a job; like a turnstile, he is in everybody's way, but stops nobody; he talks a great deal, but says very little; looks into everything but sees nothing; and has a hundred irons in the fire, but very few of them are hot, and with those few that are, he only burns his fingers.
strong mind haste
Charles Caleb Colton Hurry is the mark of a weak mind, dispatch of a strong one.
strong party reason
Charles Caleb Colton He that aspires to be the head of a party will find it more difficult to please his friends than to perplex his foes. He must often act from false reasons which are weak, because he dares not avow the true reasons which are strong.
strong hands monsters
Charles Caleb Colton The mob is a monster, with the hands of Briareus, but the head of Polyphemus,--strong to execute, but blind to perceive.
strong advice desire
Charles Caleb Colton When we feel a strong desire to thrust our advice upon others, it is usually because we suspect their weakness; but we ought rather to suspect our own.
strong passion may
Charles Caleb Colton Strong as our passions are, they may be starved into submission, and conquered without being killed.
strong men thinking
Charles Caleb Colton Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery.
strong circles errors
Charles Caleb Colton Unity of opinion is indeed a glorious and desirable thing, and its circle cannot be too strong and extended, if the centre be truth; but if the centre be error, the greater the circumference, the greater the evil.