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reading writing character
Mr. Pickwick took a seat and the paper, but instead of reading the latter, peeped over the top of it, and took a survey of the man of business, who was an elderly, pimply-faced, vegetable-diet sort of man, in a black coat, dark mixture trousers, and small black gaiters; a kind of being who seemed to be an essential part of the desk at which he was writing, and to have as much thought or sentiment. Charles Dickens
reading believe writing
I have nothing else to tell; unless, indeed, I were to confess that no one can ever believe this narrative, in the reading, more than I have believed it in the writing. Charles Dickens
reading writing style
Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word. Charles Stross
reading years people
I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it. Charles Stanley
reading age praying
It is a reading age, a preaching age, a working age, but it is not a praying age. Charles Spurgeon
reading believe water
To believe a thing is to see the cool crystal water sparkling in the cup. But to meditate on it is to drink of it. Reading gathers the clusters; contemplation squeezes forth their generous juice. Charles Spurgeon
reading light giving
Give yourself to reading.’... You need to read. Renounce as much as you will all light literature, but study as much as possible sound theological works, especially the Puritanic writers, and expositions of the Bible. Charles Spurgeon
reading writing impossible
...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write. Alan Bennett
reading long enough
The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do. Alan Bennett
rainy-day giving remember
Time is a resource that is non-renewable and non-transferable. You cannot store it, slow it up, hold it up, divide it up or give it up. You can’t hoard it up or save it for a rainy day—when it’s lost it is unrecoverable. When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection. Aiden Wilson Tozer
rainy-day men doe
On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read. Benjamin Franklin
rainy-day anthem rainy
Bob Dylan wasn't a big star early on; it was the release of his Greatest Hits album in 1967, and the mainstream success of the stoner anthem "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" ("Everybody must get stoned!"), that really put him on the mainstream map. Bob Dylan
rainy-day umbrella wanted
He looked like the sort of person who would tell you that he did not have an umbrella to lend you when he actually had several and simply wanted to see you get soaked. Daniel Handler
rainy-day important saving
Rainy day savings are incredibly important, because from time to time, bad things happen. And if you're not prepared for that, it's going to be really terrible. Dan Ariely
rainy-day things-in-life storm
You have to accept the storms and the rainy days and the things in life that you sometimes don't want to face. Bai Ling
rainy-day silent-films play
Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey Andy Partridge
rainy-day weather mad
You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life. Douglas Coupland
rainy-day comforting rainy
Stew's so comforting on a rainy day. Dodie Smith
pity comment misfortunes
Most of our misfortunes are more supportable than the comments of our friends upon them. Charles Caleb Colton
pity-love words-of-wisdom thank-god
... Treachery don't come natural to beaming youth; but trust and pity, love and constancy,-they do, thank God! Charles Dickens
pity figures should
It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head. Charles Spurgeon
pity instinct just-listen
Just listen to your instincts. Don't talk to someone or start a relationship out of pity. Chris Bosh
pity laugh-at-yourself whining
Never take yourself too seriously. Ariana Grande
pity poor relation
They tell us that "Pity is akin to Love;" if so, Pity must be a poor relation. Arthur Helps
pity speaking writers
Pity the nation that has to silence its writers for speaking their minds. Arundhati Roy
pity disgusting
Pity is always twinged with disgust. Daniel Quinn
pity
Here pity only lives when it is dead - Virgil Dante Alighieri