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life distance journey
Charles Caleb Colton Evils in the journey of life are like the hills which alarm travelers upon their road; they both appear great at a distance, but when we approach them we find that they are far less insurmountable than we had conceived.
life flower heart
Charles Dickens While the flowers, pale and unreal in the moonlight, floated away upon the river; and thus do greater things that once were in our breasts, and near our hearts, flow from us to the eternal sea.
life children memories
Charles Dickens There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. The colour of the day. The way it felt to be a child. The saltwater on your sunburnt legs. Sometimes the water is yellow, sometimes it’s red. But what colour it may be in memory, depends on the day. I’m not going to tell you the story the way it happened. I’m going to tell it the way I remember it.
life success men
Charles Dickens Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
life cells ivy
Charles Dickens Oh, a dainty plant is the ivy green, That creepeth o'er ruins old! Of right choice food are his meals, I ween, In his cell so lone and cold. Creeping where no life is seen, A rare old plant is the ivy green.
life interesting watches
Charles Dickens Buy an annuity cheap, and make your life interesting to yourself and everybody else that watches the speculation.
life summer passion
Charles Dickens Love is not a feeling to pass away Like the balmy breath of a Summer's day....... Love is not a passion of earthly mould As a thirst for honour, or fame, or gold
life life-is grind
Charles Dickens My life is one demd horrid grind.
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 two mind
Charles Caleb Colton No two things differ more than hurry and despatch. Hurry is the mark of a weak mind; despatch of a strong one.
strong long tea
Charles Dickens A commission of haberdashers could alone have reported what the rest of her poor dress was made of, but it had a strong general resemblance to seaweed, with here and there a gigantic tea-leaf. Her shawl looked particularly like a tea-leaf after long infusion.
strong struggle words-of-wisdom
Charles Dickens Strong mental agitation and disturbance was no novelty to him, even before his late sufferings. It never is, to obstinate and sullen natures; for they struggle hard to be such.
strong nature reflection
Charles Dickens The rippling of the river seemed to cause a correspondent stir in his uneasy reflections. He would have laid them asleep if he could, but they were in movement, like the stream, and all tending one way with a strong current.
strong home names
Charles Dickens Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one....
strong beer boys
Charles Dickens It was darkly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favour such as that stern man had never shown before to mortal boy, had sometimes mingled porter with his table beer to make him strong.
strong able christ
Charles Spurgeon It is not the strength of your faith that saves you, but the strength of Him upon whom you rely! Christ is able to save you if you come to Him-be your faith weak or be it strong.
strong passion men
Charles Spurgeon It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too.
history use principles
David Hume Mankind are so much the same, in all times and places, that history informs us of nothing new or strange in this particular. Its chief use is only to discover the constant and universal principles of human nature.
history remembered
Benazir Bhutto What is not recorded is not remembered.
history lists surprise
Kurt Vonnegut History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.
history
Kurt Vonnegut History! Read it and weep!
history morality interest
Agnes Repplier History is not written in the interests of morality.
history favors may
Agnes Repplier History is, and has always been trameled by facts. It may ignore some and deny others; but it cannot accommodate itself unreservedly to theories; it cannot be stripped of things evidenced in favor of things surmised.
history fluid ifs
Agnes Repplier If history in the making be a fluid thing, it swiftly crystallizes.
history serial-killer wells
Charles Manson If you're going to do something, do it well. And leave something witchy.
history twenties hindsight
Billy Wilder Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.