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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.
great-expectations secret tears
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. Charles Dickens
great-expectations strange melancholy
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
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
Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
lies lies-and-lying silent
When this poor, lisping, stammering tongue/ Lies silent in the grave. William Cowper
lies lies-and-lying marathon run runs truth win
Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons. The truth will win this marathon in court. Michael Jackson
lies-and-lying trying whether
In trying to make something new, half the undertaking lies in discovering whether it can be done. Once it has been established that it can, duplication is inevitable. Helen Gahagan
lies-and-lying responsibility
I don't know where the responsibility lies, but I know I've done everything I can do. Cassandra Gash
lies-and-lying standard washington
I am different from Washington. I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't. Mark Twain
lies lies-and-lying shots success turning
The real success in golf lies in turning three shots into two.
lies man
He can't be believed. He's a man who lies systematically.
lies poor wrote
Here lies Nolly Goldsmith, for shortness called Noll, Who wrote like an angel, and talkd like poor Poll. David Garrick
lies-and-lying oath reject swear throw tony worth
His oath should have been, 'I Tony Harwood swear to lie, I say you should reject Tony Harwood 100 percent. Throw him out. He ain't worth nothing.
truth light lines
Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.
truth roots errors
It is not so difficult a task as to plant new truths, as to root out old errors
truth honesty integrity
Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity, than straightforward and simple integrity in another.
truth common theory
Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.
truth thinking hungry
I think everyone's hungry for the truth Alanis Morissette
truth lying heart
Perhaps there is no other knowing than the mere competence of the act. If at the heart of one's being, there is no self to which one ought to be true, then sincerity is simply nerve; it lies in the unabashed vigor of the pretense. But pretense is only pretense when it is assumed that the act is not true to the agent. Find the agent. Alan Watts
truth unity duality
Duality is always secretly unity.
truth unfolding absolutes
Truth is always unfolding. It's not an absolute. Alan Arkin
truth lying acting
I always tell the truth. Even when I lie. Al Pacino
victim conferences prosecutor
I’ve never seen a prosecutor hold a press conference to discredit the victim, Al Sharpton
victim stressful
Until we question our stressful thoughts, we remain victims of the images in our head. Byron Katie
victim wanted willing
I wasn't willing to be a victim. I only wanted to survive, and I only wanted to get through. Charisma Carpenter
victim katrina percent
Some 70 percent of Americans donated to Katrina victims. Billy Tauzin
victim feels helpless
Victims always feel alone and helpless. Deepak Chopra
victim heal
You can't be a victim and heal. A. J. Langer
victim
Basically, we've become a victim of our own success.
victim
I don't think I was a victim, I don't think I was a victim at all. Charles Fisher
victim unfortunate presses
It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.
war ambition mean
For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few.
war winning games
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
war hands fog
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
war writing fighting
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
war long body
Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.
war heart character
Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart?
war believe blow
I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.
war believe writing
There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet? Charles Stross
war writing spy
I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.