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light sun life-is
In the moonlight which is always sad, as the light of the sun itself is--as the light called human life is--at its coming and its going. Charles Dickens
light alcohol cleaning
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew. Charles Dickens
light israel fire
Secrecy of design, when combined with rapidity of execution, like me column that guided Israel in the deserts, becomes the guardian pillar of light and fire to our friends, a cloud of overwhelming and impenetrable darkness to our enemies. Charles Caleb Colton
light moral sometimes
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer; for it prevents those disorders which other remedies sometimes cure, but sometimes confirm. Charles Caleb Colton
light heaven growth
Posthumous fame is a plant of tardy growth, for our body must be the seed of it; or we may liken it to a torch, which nothing but the last spark of life can light up; or we may compare it to the trumpet of the archangel, for it is blown over the dead; but unlike that awful blast, it is of earth, not of heaven, and can neither rouse nor raise us. Charles Caleb Colton
light moral materials
Light, whether it be material or moral, is the best reformer. Charles Caleb Colton
light opposites people
What connexion can there be, between the place in Lincolnshire, the house in town, the Mercury in powder, and the whereabout of Jo the outlaw with the broom, who had that distant ray of light upon him when he swept the churchyard-step? What connexion can there have been between many people in the innumerable histories of this world, who, from opposite sides of great gulfs, have, nevertheless, been very curiously brought together! Charles Dickens
light stage
Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage. Charles Dickens
light doubt church
Doubts about the fundamentals of the gospel exist in certain churches, I am told, to a large extent. My dear friends, where there is a warm-hearted church, you do not hear of them. I never saw a fly light on a red-hot plate. Charles Spurgeon
godmother good-things lost
Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it? Charles Dickens
godmother fairy fairy-godmother
The public has become my fairy godmother. Eartha Kitt
godmother fairy fairy-godmother
Maybe she was being so hoity-toity because she didn't have her own fairy godmother. Charlaine Harris
godmother needs fairy
Oh, where is the Fairy Godmother of explanations when you need her? Allison Pearson
godmother creepy harry-dresden
The best thing about my faerie godmother is that the creepy just keeps on coming. Jim Butcher
haste pluck modest
Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste. William Shakespeare
haste desperate cases
Haste is needful in a desperate case. William Shakespeare
hasten hears learning practice understand whatsoever
Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard. St. Gregory The Great
haste-makes-waste haste take-time
Take time for all things. Benjamin Franklin
haste speed poor
Reckless haste makes poor speed. Benjamin Franklin
haste fame
Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent. William Shakespeare
haste poor counselor
Haste is a poor counselor Alexandre Dumas
haste hearts life short swift time travel
Life is short and we never have enough time for gladdening the hearts of those who travel the way with us. Oh, be swift to love! Make haste to be kind. Henri Frederic Amiel
haste saw sir sooner
Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, "Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner Francis Bacon