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book night men
Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking. Charles Dickens
book reading writing
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
book knowledge men
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body. Charles Caleb Colton
book reading advice
When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.
book merit lovers
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.
book reading writing
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
book reading writing
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
book writing companion
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.
book men soul
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
symphony cosmos rhythm
Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos. Deepak Chopra
symphony asking would-be
Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day. C. S. Lewis
symphony musical intellectual
And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life. Charles Sanders Peirce
symphony listening attention
I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You don't listen to one instrument; you listen to music. Charles Mingus
symphony orchestra chicago
The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world. Jane Byrne
symphony
Some of it will go to have the Tupelo Symphony back with us this year. Sharon Long
symphony bird lines
I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you're back again. Charles Bukowski
symphony perfect strive
Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony. Edward Abbey
symphony shostakovich form
The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.
pluck seconds takes
It only takes 30 seconds to pluck my eyebrows, but it hurts. I have to tweeze 'em in the middle once a week. Otherwise, I look like Bert from 'Sesame Street.' Freddie Prinze, Jr.
pluck
I have not skillFrom such a sharp and waspish word as "No"To pluck the sting. Henry Taylor
pluck lama dalai
If I prayed as much as I pluck, I'd be the Dalai Lama. Kathie Lee Gifford
pluck points spot tough
This is the end of a real tough spot in our schedule. We managed to pluck a lot of points from this part of the schedule. Dave Tippett