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memories book writing
Memory is the friend of wit, but the treacherous ally of invention; there are many books that owe their success to two things; good memory of those who write them, and the bad memory of those who read them Charles Caleb Colton
memories appreciate literature
Contemporaries appreciate the person rather than their merit, posterity will regard the merit rather than the person.
memories mind firsts
Of all the faculties of the mind, memory is the first that flourishes, and the first that dies.
memories book reader
Many books owe their success to the good memories of their authors and the bad memories of their readers.
memories teaching should-have
All preceptors should have that kind of genius described by Tacitus, "equal to their business, but not above it;" a patient industry, with competent erudition; a mind depending more on its correctness than its originality, and on its memory rather than on its invention.
memories green lord
Lord, keep my memory green. Charles Dickens
memories husband men
I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfort.
memories dictator amnesia
Where would dictators be without our compliant amnesia? Make the collective lose its memory, you can conceal anything. Charles Stross
memories liberty might
If I forget, then it might as well never have happened. Memory is liberty.
done literature harm
When millions applaud you seriously ask yourself what harm you have done; and when they disapprove you, what good.
done lost
Nothing of what is nobly done is ever lost.
done half christ
If you are saved, the work is only half done until you are employed to bring others to Christ. Charles Spurgeon
done littles lord
Say much of what the Lord has done for you, but say little of what you have done for the Lord.
done soy christ
Mi fe no descansa en lo que soy, o lo que seré, o como me siento, o lo que sé, sino en lo que Cristo és, en lo que él ha hecho, y en lo que él está haciendo en mí - My faith rests not in what I am, or shall be, or feel, or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me.
done language human-nature
I don't speak anything very well. The longer that you travel, you find out that you really don't even need to speak the language to get around and get things done, to live in those places. If you're somewhat resourceful and perceptive, you're pretty much going to know what's going on because human nature is human nature: they understand it, you understand it, and it works. Alan Bishop
done doe drainage
I have done almost every human activity inside a taxi which does not require main drainage. Alan Brien
done court understood
Fortunately, the courts discharged me every time after they understood what I had done. Alain Robert
done
Being mystified is a good beginning, because you won't do what you've done before. Alan Alda
vivid-imagination able belief
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. David Hume
vivid violence sometimes
I sometimes go for the strongest, most vivid colour on the palette, which in the case of movies is violence. Brian De Palma
vivid-imagination imagination vivid
I have a very vivid imagination. Janice Dickinson
vivid moral persuasive
Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands. Daniel J. Boorstin
vivid-imagination world curious
I'm ever curious about the world. David Baldacci
vivid worst
A vivid picture. One of the worst things I have seen.
vivid different movement
A movement that we will to execute is never more than a represented movement, and appears in a different domain from that of the executed movement, which always takes place when the image is vivid enough. Ernst Mach
vivid firsts world
Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world. H. G. Wells
vivid london steps
The anguish in London is a vivid reminder of why we cannot relent in taking the steps necessary to defend our homeland from the present terrorist threat. Mike Pence