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selfish character government
If the Irish once find out that there are any circumstances in which they can get free government grants, we shall have a system of mendicancy [begging] such as the world never knew”. After a million had starved to death he stated “The great evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people. Charles Trevelyan
selfish real character
The real evil with which we have to contend is not the physical evil of the Famine, but the moral evil of the selfish, perverse and turbulent character of the people. Charles Trevelyan
selfish opportunity people
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. Charles Dudley Warner
selfish character men
Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time. Charles Dickens
selfish heart character
Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former. Charles Dickens
selfish pursuit easier
To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish. Alan Bennett
selfish lying people
I have another question: Hillary Clinton, lying to the American people about her selfish, awful judgment in making our secrets vulnerable.Guilty or not guilty? Chris Christie
selfish athlete worry
You can't worry about what people say, but... People always harp on athletes being selfish individualists. Chris Bosh
selfish men selfishness
No man will work for your interests unless they are his. David Seabury
love-is ideas two
And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom. Alan Watts
love-is
Love doesn't have a point. Love is the point. Alan Moore
love-is chocolate different
Love is overrated. Biochemically no different than eating large quantities of chocolate Al Pacino
love-is self heavy
The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Aiden Wilson Tozer
love-is thinking self
The labor of self-love is a heavy one indeed. Think whether much of your sorrow has not arisen from someone speaking slightingly of you. As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal, how can you hope to find inward peace? Aiden Wilson Tozer
love-is chocolate bananas
What I love is a peanut butter and pickle sandwich. I'll just have peanut butter and bananas, then peanut butter and pickles. Peanut butter and chocolate I don't recommend. Dianne Wiest
love-is water life-is
Water is life is love is life is water. Diane von Furstenberg
love-is understanding discrimination
We define ourselves, in part, by the discriminations we make. The value of what we love is enriched by our understanding of what we dislike. David Ansen
love-is rewards doing-you
Find something to do that you love because then the work itself is always the reward not the recompense. And if you love what you're doing you probably do better at it than doing something you don't love and therefore you'll be compensated appropriately. David McCullough
vanity funeral world
Those who bequeath unto themselves a pompous funeral, are at just so much expense to inform the world of something that had much better be concealed; namely, that their vanity has survived themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
vanity use care
Those who obtain riches by labor, care, and watching, know their value. Those who impart them to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue, and religion, know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity. And those who experience the difficulties and dangers of preserving them know their perplexities. Charles Simmons
vanity variation lord
The Lord who cannot endure vain repetitions is equally weary of vain variations. Charles Spurgeon
vanity sin favourite
Vanity is my favourite sin. Al Pacino
vanity sin my-favorite
Vanity: my favorite sin. Al Pacino
vanity favors persons
Vanity keeps persons in favor with themselves who are out of favor with all others. William Shakespeare
vanity glasses mouths
There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass. William Shakespeare
vanity self missing
Most timidities have such secret compensations and Miss Bart was discerning enough to know that the inner vanity is generally in proportion to the outer self depreciation. Edith Wharton
vanity weight nests
No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity. Edith Wharton