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real giving gold
It is doubtful whether mankind are most indebted to those who like Bacon and Butler dig the gold from the mine of literature, or to those who, like Paley, purify it, stamp it, fix its real value, and give it currency and utility Charles Caleb Colton
real passion deceit
As that gallant can best affect a pretended passion for one woman who has no true love for another, so he that has no real esteem for any of the virtues can best assume the appearance of them all.
real deceit our-actions
The true motives of our actions, like the real pipes of an organ, are usually concealed; but the gilded and hollow pretext is pompously placed in the front for show.
real evil lasts
There is this of good in real evils; they deliver us, while they last, from the petty despotism of all that were imaginary.
real honest strategy
Be real and adjust you strategy according to honest results.
reality drawing views
Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good imitation of truth, as a perspective is of the reality, only in one. But truth, like that reality of which the perspective is the representation, will bear to be scrutinized in all points of view, and though examined under every situation, is one and the same.
real character mean
Duke Chartres used to boast that no man could have less real value for character than himself, yet he would gladly give twenty thousand pounds for a good one, because he could immediately make double that sum by means of it.
real atmosphere gold
To be continually subject to the breath of slander, will tarnish the purest virtue, as a constant exposure to the atmosphere will obscure the brightness of the finest gold; but in either case, the real value of both continues the same, although the currency may be somewhat impeded.
real home thinking
We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do; therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you; for he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy.
decay bud eating
Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud The eating canter dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all. William Shakespeare
decay indecision
I don't do anything with my life except romanticize and decay with indecision. Allen Ginsberg
decay hard lying offshore oil photograph time trying
I'm trying to photograph an old offshore oil city that is lying in decay in the Caspian Sea, but I've been having a hard time getting there. Edward Burtynsky
decay economy economy-and-economics french issue losing preparing sign society
It could become an issue for the French economy if we're losing talent. That would be another sign of decay in how French society is preparing for the future. Nicolas Sobczak
decay holy-places amulets
When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes C. S. Lewis
decay written all-things
Mutability is written upon all things. Antoine Rivarol
decay early national showing silent studies
National studies are showing that early decay is on the increase, and that's shocking, actually. It's really a silent epidemic.
decay fanaticism fierce interval period transition wild
The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and the establishment of the new, constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism John Calhoun
decay our-love destruction
All other things to their destruction draw, Only our love hath no decay... John Donne
logic cold evolution
By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy. David Quammen
logic ethics accomplished
Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics. Anton Chekhov
logic students reasonable
Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing. Deng Xiaoping
logical shoreline knows
The more you know, the more you know you don't know. Aristotle
logic tradition obsolete
An ounce of logic can be worth more than a ton of tradition that has become obsolete through the weathering of time. Ed Parker
logic humans human-beings
Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
logic appeals reason-and-logic
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it. Samuel Butler
logic enough reason
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
logic pleasure footsteps
Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps. Alexander Smith