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british-statesman business found great guiding himself learning man
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. John Morley
british-statesman general improvement mankind supposed taking
They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.
british-statesman cause evolution force
Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
british-statesman great life ought
A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.
british-statesman cannot emotions
You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.
british-statesman duty examine laws religion sure worship
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
british-statesman good hold unless
Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
british-statesman brought good proverb
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
british-statesman literature
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
change begets
Change begets change. Charles Dickens
change integrity roots
He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place. Charles Caleb Colton
change begets
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast.
change men rocks
Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he seldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion. The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.
change country littles
If we strike a line to the N.W. from Sydney to Wellington Valley, we shall find that little change takes place in the geological features of the country. Charles Sturt
change age wells
It is not well to make great changes in old age. Charles Spurgeon
change becoming becoming-new
Everything is perpetually becoming new. Alan Watts
change way world
When you get free from certain fixed concepts of the way the world is, you find it is far more subtle, and far more miraculous, than you thought it was.
change vices computer
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa. Alan Perlis
country easy walks
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.
country men climate
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least.
country travel home
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
country sadness men
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.
country heart simple
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.
country self names
The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.
country mean hands
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.
country night men
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.
country character men
Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.