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graveyard handsome prophets twice
Prophets were twice stoned - first in anger; then, after their death, with a handsome slab in the graveyard Christopher Morley
graveyard greatness human
An "ideal society" would be the graveyard of human greatness. Nicolas Davila
graveyard ifs
If you live in a graveyard, you can't weep for everyone. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
graveyard people trying whose
If you're trying to be a successful writer, and you go into a second-hand bookshop, it's the graveyard of people whose books haven't been wanted. Mark Haddon
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Charles Caleb Colton
greatness deserving-it mind
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
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
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.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
greatness shy enough
You can't shy away from your greatness just because you're afraid you're not great enough Chris Colfer
greatness men yams
You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men. Chinua Achebe
greatness where-you-are depends
Greatness depends on where you are coming from. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
greatness serious scene
[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought. Edward Gibbon
human-nature abstinence appetite
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature . Charles Dickens
human-nature lifeless permanent
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless. Alan Watts
humanity architect grey
Yes, Garnett Grey was an Architect. Were a psychoanalyst to approach him from behind, tap his shoulder, and say 'Humanity,' Garrett'd spin and respond, without hesitation, 'Solvable'. Chip Kidd
humanity
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own.
humanity mud practicals
We cannot trample upon the humanity of others without devaluing our own. The Igbo, always practical, put it concretely in their proverb Onye ji onye n'ani ji onwe ya: 'He who will hold another down in the mud must stay in the mud to keep him down.'
humanity historical lists
History, in fact, is no more than a list of the crimes of humanity, human follies and accidents
humanity church troops
The peace of the Eastern church was invaded by a swarm of fanatics [monks], incapable of fear, or reason, or humanity; and the Imperial troops acknowledged, without shame, that they were much less apprehensive of an encounter with the fiercest Barbarians.
humanity feelings emotion
Fanaticism obliterates the feelings of humanity.
humanity sorrow ruins
If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.