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people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
wish gates
The wishing gate opens into nothing. Charles Spurgeon
wish half wells
The literati in their cellarsPerform semantic tarantellas.I wish I did it half as well as them. Al Stewart
wish weakness euthanasia
My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing. Al Pacino
wish world back-again
Wish I could spin my world into reverse just to have you back again David Guetta
wish three drink
I wish I could learn that just three drinks is enough, but I have not learned that. Caitlin Moran
wish narnia wardrobe
Daryl shrugged. "If wishes were wardrobes, we'd be in Narnia. Bryan Davis
wish expected wish-you-the-best
I wish you the best that can be hoped for, and no worse than can be expected. Catherynne M. Valente
wish criminal-mind criminals
Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.(attributed to) William Shakespeare
wish purpose failing
If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.
may oppression begets
Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
may invention condensation
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
may maintaining conquer
Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.
may riches talent
From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneration.
may cups bliss
We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
may venture able
As there are none so weak that we may venture to injure them with impunity, so there are none so low that they may not at some time be able to repay an obligation. Therefore, what benevolence would dictate, prudence would confirm.
may modern poet
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.
may finals tomorrow
To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning.
may certain made
We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.