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greatness deserving-it mind
Charles Caleb Colton Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
Charles Caleb Colton In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Charles Caleb Colton Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
great-expectations secret tears
Charles Dickens The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.
great-expectations strange melancholy
Charles Dickens So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
great-expectations may done
Charles Dickens But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
great-expectations may let-me
Charles Dickens Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
greatness excellence littles
Charles Simmons True greatness consists in being great in little things.
performances i-can can-do
David Hockney I've realized that I can do performances.
performance stocks
Linda Duessel The performance of dividend-paying stocks has more to do with the fundamentals in their industries.
performance perplexing pleasing usual
Martin Broughton The pleasing performance has been accompanied by the usual perplexing developments on the regulatory front,
performance proud team
Raymond Hack We are proud of the performance of our team in the first leg.
performance strip
Anthony Chukumba When you strip everything out, the performance is pretty much as expected.
performances live-performance
Bob Gunton I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.
performance remains
Stuart Rose This is an encouraging performance, but there remains much to be done,
performance unjust
Geoff Peterson It is unjust and unfair. Anyway, marijuana is not a performance-enhancing drug.
performance
Peter Hitchens It's a better performance from refining and marketing.
winter darkness scrooge
Charles Dickens Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.
winter age lapland
Charles Caleb Colton Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
winning race looks
Charles Caleb Colton If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.
wine order water
Charles Caleb Colton In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.
wings gone originality
Charles Caleb Colton All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.
wind literature wave
Charles Caleb Colton Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
wind fire tale-of-two-cities
Charles Dickens Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.
winning race obstacles
Charles Dickens Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.
wine paris six
Charles Dickens Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.