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writing hair fire
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up... Charles Dickens
writing numbers gold
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. Charles Caleb Colton
writing language nonsense
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
writing men profound
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
writing faces privacy
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
writing men three
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
writing should-have fire
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
writing self hints
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
writing two style
When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.
goodness capacity
We don't have the capacity to exaggerate God's goodness. We can distort it, or even misrepresent it, but we can never exaggerate it. Bill Johnson
goodness expenses moral-perfection
Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself. Benjamin Franklin
goodness ends all-things
The good is the end toward which all things tend. Boethius
goodness easier be-good
It's so much easier to do good than to be good. B. C. Forbes
goodness saw
Oh, we saw a lot. My goodness, we saw a lot, Marion Ross
goodness fairs
How near to good is what is fair! Ben Jonson
goodness gracefulness
There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness. Samuel Butler
goodness shattered filled
Oh. To be filled with goodness then shattered by goodness, so beautifully mosaically fragmented by such shocking goodness. Ali Smith
goodness
Our will is always for our own good, but we do not always see what that is. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
historian recorders visuals
I see myself as a recorder of history, sort of a visual historian. David Burnett
historians illuminate invisible power roads shape taken time
I look to historians for their power to illuminate not just the invisible lineaments of the present, but also that which is not present. What are the roads that were not taken that most shape our own time? Rick Perlstein
historians
Privatization came on slowly. When something very big happens, like privatization, historians and economists like to think you must have had very big causes. That is not how it happened. Kenneth Baker
historian historians reflect speaking
I've said before that I am not a historian and that when it comes to speaking of the dimensions of the Holocaust, it is the historians that should reflect on it. Hassan Rouhani
historian rewriting-history
Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them. George W. Bush
historians human prefer
The whole point about historians is that we are really communing with the dead. It's very restful - because you read. There's some sociopathic problem that makes me prefer it to human interaction. Niall Ferguson
historian millennia worldwide
What strikes the historian surveying anti-Semitism worldwide over more than two millennia is its fundamental irrationality. It seems to make no sense, any more than malaria or meningitis makes sense. Paul Johnson
historian novelist wants
The novelist wants to know how things will turn out; the historian already knows how things turned out, but wants to know why they turned out the way they did. Michael Korda
historian traveling
I'm very excited, especially traveling with the president, who is a historian on Scotland.