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Edward Gibbon The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events.
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masters worst
Charles Caleb Colton put on the livery of the best master only to serve the worst.
masters source phenomenon
Aiden Wilson Tozer Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon.
masters theory mathematical
David Hilbert We do not master a scientific theory until we have shelled and completely prised free its mathematical kernel.
masters power-of-thought regions
Bertrand Russell The power of thought, the vast regions it can master.
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Charlaine Harris What are you, Zen Master Fang?
masters oaks
Bernard of Clairvaux I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.
masters harm hail
William Shakespeare To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm.
master slave words
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Charles Dickens We've got a private master comes to teach us at home, but we ain't proud, because ma says it's sinful.
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Charles Caleb Colton It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
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Charles Dickens Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
Charles Dickens I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
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Charles Dickens Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
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Charles Studd Had I cared for the comments of people, I should never have been a missionary.
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Charles Stanley I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.
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Charles Spurgeon The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.
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Charles Spurgeon People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.
time fool calendars
Charles Caleb Colton Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar.
time all-things
Charles Caleb Colton Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed.
time retreat tides
Charles Caleb Colton Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent.
time two black
Charles Caleb Colton Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities.
time looks one-thing
Charles Caleb Colton To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
time world overcoming
Charles Caleb Colton Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death.
time journey men
Charles Caleb Colton Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.
time opportunity enemy
Charles Caleb Colton Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.
time past gone
Charles Caleb Colton Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.