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wise words-of-wisdom godmother
This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it? Charles Dickens
wise men may
A wise man may be duped as well as a fool; but the fool publishes the triumph of the deceiver. Charles Caleb Colton
wise money thinking
It is a common observation that any fool can get money; but they are not wise that think so.
wise light fire
If martyrdom is now on the decline, it is not because martyrs are less zealous, but because martyr-mongers are more wise. The light of intellect has put out the fire of persecution, as other fires are observed to smoulder before the light of the same.
wise art moments
The art of declamation has been sinking in value from the moment that speakers were foolish enough to publish, and hearers wise enough to read.
wise heart wine
Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.
wise foolish gravity
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
wise men thinking
He that thinks he is the happiest man, really is so. But he that thinks he is the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
wise men littles
We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.
fashion grace virtue
Fashions smile has given wit to dullness and grace to deformity, and has brought everything into vogue, by turns, but virtue.
fashion vogue turns
Fashion ... has brought every thing into vogue, by turns.
fashion past looks
Custom looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present, but both of them are somewhat purblind as to things that are to come.
fashion sacrifice shade
Fashion is the veriest goddess of semblance and of shade; to be happy is of far less consequence to her worshippers than to appear so; even pleasure itself they sacrifice to parade, and enjoyment to ostentation.
fashion admiration indifference
A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.
fashion party past
Custom is the law of one description of fools, and fashion of another; but the two parties often clash--for precedent is the legislator of the first, and novelty of the last. Custom, therefore, looks to things that are past, and fashion to things that are present.
fashion pride clothes
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
fashion utterance weak
You must be in fashion is the utterance of weak headed mortals. Charles Spurgeon
fashion people records
Obviously given good health, and a continuing audience and a record company that allows me to do music. So given those things yes, I'm introducing some new music that people haven't really heard me do in quite this fashion. Al Jarreau
harmful itself performance position represent team time
We're not going to put someone in a position where it's going to be harmful of their performance this weekend, but at the same time the team will represent itself proudly. John Adams
harm slapstick ifs
If you can do no good, at least do no harm. Kurt Vonnegut
harmful majority president proposing recipe soup stale
What the president is proposing is warmed-over, stale soup but with a recipe that is going to be harmful to the majority of Americans. Ron Pollack
harm ken slow
We're going to take it slow and see how Ken goes. There's still more testing. We would never want to do anything that would harm him as we go forward.
harmony faster courses
We all have this place in us, a place of strength, harmony and wisdom, but most of the time we don't live there How can we course-correct faster? How can we encourage each other to live in that place more? Arianna Huffington
harmless writer
Lexicographer. A writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge. Samuel Johnson
harmony interest israeli
Israeli interests are not necessarily in harmony with the American interests. Bashar al-Assad
harm hidden league major message scandal sends sports
That's what Major League Baseball's steroid scandal was all about, the hidden harm in competitive sports that sends the wrong message to the young.
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Solana says those responsible at the local, political and religious level must prevent any repetition of such acts, which can only harm the image of peaceful Islam.