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passion pride ill-will
There are some upon this earth of yours,' returned the Spirit, 'who lay claim to know us, and who do their deeds of passion, pride, ill-will, hatred, envy, bigotry, and selfishness in our name; who are as strange to us and all our kith and kin, as if they had never lived. Remember that, and charge their doings on themselves, not us. Charles Dickens
passion hunting breasts
There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
passion exercise order
Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, as it indicates the coolest yet quickest exercise of genius, at a moment when the passions are roused. Charles Caleb Colton
passion greed may
The avarice of the miser may be termed the grand sepulchral of all his other passions, as they successively decay.
passion sloth causes
There is a holy love and a holy rage, and our best virtues never glow so brightly as when our passions are excited in the cause. Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues; and the best of us are better when roused.
passion swings giving
By privileges, immunities, or prerogatives to give unlimited swing to the passions of individuals, and then to hope that they will restrain them, is about as reasonable as to expect that the tiger will spare the hart to browse upon the herbage.
passion men wind
The breast of a good man is a little heaven commencing on earth; where the Deity sits enthroned with unrivaled influence, every subjugated passion, "like the wind and storm, fulfilling his word.
passion suffering blinded
So blinded are we by our passions, that we suffer more to be damned than to be saved.
passion thinking gentleman
A display of indifference to all the actions and passions of mankind was not supposed to be such a distinguished quality at that time, I think, as I have observed it to be considered since. I have known it very fashionable indeed. I have seen it displayed with such success, that I have encountered some fine ladies and gentlemen who might as well have been born caterpillars.
views christ superficial
The more you know about Christ, the less you will be satisfied with superficial views of Him. Charles Spurgeon
views people film
The films that I do tend to polarise people's views. Alan Parker
views mind lovely
One can only display complex information in the mind. Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely. Alan Perlis
views years organization
One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya. Akhmad Kadyrov
views evil causes
A low view of God is the cause of a hundred lesser evils. A high view of God is the solution to ten thousand temporal problems. Aiden Wilson Tozer
views lows
Low views of God destroy the gospel for all who hold them.
views ego enlightenment
The attainment of enlightenment from ego's point of view is extreme death. Chogyam Trungpa
views extending fearlessness
Fearlessness is extending ourselves beyond our limited view.
views people helping
The point is not to convert anyone to our view, but rather to help people wake to their own view, their own sanity.
practice judging use
It is curious that we pay statesmen for what they say, not for what they do; and judge of them from what they do, not from what they say. Hence they have one code of maxims for profession and another for practice, and make up their consciences as the Neapolitans do their beds, with one set of furniture for show and another for use.
practice breathing bridges
Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You can feel that you are breathing, and equally you can feel that it is breathing you. So it is a sort of bridge between the voluntary world and the involuntary world — a place where they are one. Alan Watts
practice ideas growth
With science, ideas can germinate within a bed of theory, form, and practice that assists their growth... But we as gardeners, must beware... for some seeds are the seeds of ruin... and the most iridescent blooms are often the most dangerous Alan Moore
practice
There is nothing like practice. Alan Hovhaness
practice pay-the-price people
If (the West) shows its rigidity by making unjust decisions and putting their threats into practice, the Iranian people will not be the only ones to pay the price. Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
practice justice forever
God's justice stands forever against the sinner in utter severity. The vague and tenuous hope that God is 'too kind' to punish the ungodly has become deadly opiate for the consciences of millions. It hushes their fears and allows them to practice all pleasant forms of iniquity while death draws everyday nearer and the command to repent goes unregarded. As responsible moral beings, we dare not so trifle with our eternal future.
practice simplicity path
We must begin our practice by walking the narrow path of simplicity, the hinayana path, before we can walk upon the open highway of compassionate action, the mahayana path.
practice emphasis situation
The emphasis on practice is because it is the only time in your life you can steer your karmic situation.
practice long rogues
As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue. David Korten