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evil intellectual rehabilitation
Yes, I am positive that one of the great curatives of our evils, our maladies, social, moral, and intellectual, would be a return to the soil, a rehabilitation of the work of the fields. Charles Wagner
evil may lessons
I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil. Charles Dickens
evil lazy would-be
The aphorism "Whatever is, is right," would be as final as it is lazy, did it not include the troublesome consequence that nothing that ever was, was wrong.
evil statesmen statesmanship
It is seldom that statesmen have the option of choosing between a good and an evil. Charles Caleb Colton
evil choices goods
Life often presents us with a choice of evils, rather than of goods.
evil decision choices
Human foresight often leaves its proudest possessor only a choice of evils.
evil growth rapids
No propagation or multiplication is more rapid that that of evil, unless it be checked; no growth more certain.
evil giving decision
Accustom yourself to submit on all and every occasion, and on the most minute, no less than on the most important circumstances of life, to a small present evil, to obtain a greater distant good. This will give decision, tone, and energy to the mind, which, thus disciplined, will often reap victory from defeat and honor from repulse.
evil unhappy ends
Good never come of such evil, a happier end was not in nature to so unhappy a beginning.
poetry should
Why then we should drop into poetry.
poetry qualified
Everyone is not able, or inclined, to write poetry in the narrower sense any more than everyone is qualified to take part in a walking race. But just as all of us can and do walk, so all of us can and do use language poetically. Louis MacNeice
poetry fruit mute
A Poem should be palpable and mute As a globed fruit. Archibald MacLeish
poetry indignation
Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.] Juvenal
poetry mind body
Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind. Camille Paglia
poetry wish way
Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by. C. K. Williams
poetry silence never-quit
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. Charles Simic
poetry teach
poetry had everything to teach me about life. Diane Ackerman
poetry littles spirituality
I approach poetry and spirituality like literary nitroglycerin -- a little can do a lot and you better damn well be careful with it. Craig Johnson
luck fortune quarters
Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck in the same quarter. Charlotte Bronte
lucky whole-life has-beens
I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that. Brian Wilson
lucky
Celebrity is a gift. I'm very lucky. DJ Qualls
luck human-nature tick
The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor? David McCullough
lucky beats chanting
Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, "To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day. David Mitchell
lucky actors thumbs
I grind my teeth and keep my thumbs in so tight that I've dislocated them, just not to scream. Sometimes as an actor one is lucky enough to be asked to scream. Jane Birkin
luck ifs knows
If bad luck knows who you are, become someone else. Jandy Nelson
luck lucky talent
A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it. Jane Austen
luck triumph talent
And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it.