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character eye names
If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face. Charles Dickens
character interesting long
"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."
character boys thinking
"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."
character half tongue
Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well. Charles Caleb Colton
character abuse criticism
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.
character men support
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
character suffering peculiar
Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.
character water taste
Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.
character long aging
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
feelings age done
We all have some experience of a feeling, that comes over us occasionally, of what we are saying and doing having been said and done before, in a remote time - of our having been surrounded, dim ages ago, by the same faces, objects, and circumstances.
feelings words-of-wisdom deeds
"O, Mrs. Clennam, Mrs. Clennam," said Little Dorrit, "angry feelings and unforgiving deeds are no comfort and no guide to you and me."
feelings words-of-wisdom matter
It is, as Mr. Rokesmith says, a matter of feeling, but Lor how many matters ARE matters of feeling!
feelings certain
In a certain sense, Zen is feeling life instead of feeling something about life. Alan Watts
feelings want cop
It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't. Alain Robert
feelings knows statues
I'm delighted. I don't know of anybody who had a statue built of them while they were living. It's a great feeling. Al Lopez
feelings dazzle christ
Christ dazzles me and stirs within me such feelings of amazement that I can never get over Him. Aiden Wilson Tozer
feelings way roles
I like to disappear into a role. I equate the success of it with a feeling of being chemically changed. That's the only way I can express it. Chiwetel Ejiofor
feelings littles world
I have the urge to still be part of the world, the universe, of life. Through music I have the feeling that I come a little closer to that. Dave Gahan
suffering-pain expectations broken
I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
suffering reign france
The reign of terror to which France submitted has been more justly termed "the reign of cowardice." One knows not which most to execrate,--the nation that could submit to suffer such atrocities, or that low and bloodthirsty demagogue that could inflict them. France, in succumbing to such a wretch as Robespierre, exhibited, not her patience, but her pusillanimity.
suffering earth sickness
There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health. Charles Spurgeon
suffering saint seeds
Suffering saints are living seed.
suffering miserable-person wealth
No one is so miserable as the poor person who maintains the appearance of wealth.
suffering disease way
We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.
suffering problem dies
If we live, we live; if we die, we die; if we suffer, we suffer; if we are terrified, we are terrified. There is no problem about it.
suffering sake christ
If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake.
suffering reason results
If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits. Chin-Ning Chu