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writing hair fire
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up... Charles Dickens
writing numbers gold
Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither. Charles Caleb Colton
writing language nonsense
It is curious that some learned dunces, because they can write nonsense in languages that are dead, should despise those that talk sense in languages that are living.
writing men profound
He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.
writing faces privacy
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
writing men three
There are three difficulties in authorship: to write anything worth publishing, to find honest men to publish it, and to find sensible men to read it.
writing should-have fire
We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire.
writing self hints
The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon.
writing two style
When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others.
symphony cosmos rhythm
Our biological rhythms are the symphony of the cosmos. Deepak Chopra
symphony asking would-be
Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day. C. S. Lewis
symphony musical intellectual
And what, then, is belief? It is the demi-cadence which closes a musical phrase in the symphony of our intellectual life. Charles Sanders Peirce
symphony listening attention
I'm too busy playing. When I'm playing I don't pay attention to who's listening. When I was listening I listened to symphony orchestras, Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Stravinsky. You don't listen to one instrument; you listen to music. Charles Mingus
symphony orchestra chicago
The Chicago Symphony is considered the greatest orchestra in the world. Jane Byrne
symphony
Some of it will go to have the Tupelo Symphony back with us this year. Sharon Long
symphony bird lines
I don't know if this is true to you but for me sometimes it gets so bad that anything else say like looking at a bird on an overhead power line seems as great as a Beethoven symphony. then you forget it and you're back again. Charles Bukowski
symphony perfect strive
Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony. Edward Abbey
symphony shostakovich form
The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.
desire holiness repentance
Repentance and desires after holiness never be separated. Charles Spurgeon
desire want littles
The more we pray, the more we shall want to pray. The more we pray, the more we can pray. The more we pray, the more we shall pray. He who prays little will pray less, but he who prays much will pray more. And he who prays more, will desire to pray more abundantly.
desire praying mercy
When God's mercies are coming, their footfalls are our desires to pray.
desire alive sin
When you desire to be most alive to God, you will generally find sin most alive to repel you.
desire want limitless
For if you know what you want, and will be content with it, you can be trusted. But if you do not know, your desires are limitless and no one can tell how to deal with you. Nothing satisfies an individual incapable of enjoyment. Alan Watts
desire desire-for-success fear-of-failure
The things we do without the fear of failure and the desire for success are the purest acts we'll ever do Alan Moore
desire belief wonderful
My beliefs and my desires have changed. They have come into alignment with who he is and who he created you to be. And that's a wonderful thing and that's what we will always offer at Exodus. Alan Chambers
desire purpose gift-from-god
The desire to fulfill the purpose for which we were created is a gift from God. Aiden Wilson Tozer
desire welfare achieve
With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God to achieve it, what do we lack? Surely we are the most favored of all creatures.