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book night men
Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking. Charles Dickens
book reading writing
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
book knowledge men
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body. Charles Caleb Colton
book reading advice
When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.
book merit lovers
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.
book reading writing
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
book reading writing
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
book writing companion
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.
book men soul
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
symbolism cynical hopeful
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. Arthur C. Clarke
symbolism tarot language
The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs. A. E. Waite
symbolism important world
No important national language, at least in the Occidental world, has complete regularity of grammatical structure, nor is there a single logical category which is adequately and consistently handled in terms of linguistic symbolism. Edward Sapir
symbolism cymbals should
I don't like symbolism that hits you over the head. A symbol should not be a cymbal. Edward Albee
symbolism differences add
Does it make all the difference in the world? No. But there's a great deal of symbolism associated with whether we're going to add $24 billion to the debt in unwanted and unnecessary pork-barrel projects. John McCain
symbolism apples happiness-and-love
In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me. Instead, I was to find both love and happiness soon thereafter. So to me [the May apple] is the mandrake, the love symbol, of the old dealers in plant restoratives. Hal Borland
symbolism substance vote
If you wear a hoodie but aren't registered to vote, you got the symbolism but missed the substance. Jesse Jackson
symbolism feelings purpose
When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family, they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes. Christopher Lasch
symbolism important easy
When you have spent an important part of your life playing Let's Pretend, it's often easy to see symbolism where none exists. Gene Tierney
thrown
Even the best of us are thrown off some- times. Arthur Conan Doyle
thrown
Now, the gauntlet has been, I think, thrown down. Kate Michelman
thrown
I didn't go to school much. I was thrown out of different schools, and my university is the street. Philippe Petit
thrown travel
What would air travel look like if airplanes were thrown out after each flight? No one would be flying in airplanes. Gwynne Shotwell
thrown
If someone is going to get thrown out, it should be the manager.
thrown
Some trash is recycled, some is thrown away, some ends up where it shouldn't end up. Carlo Ratti
thrown
We really didn't have a play at first, and we shouldn't have thrown the ball.
thrown
We've had lefties thrown at us all year. We're used to it now.
thrown william
William Lloyd Garrison was up there with Frederick Douglass being thrown off trains and going through what happened in the 1960s in 1840 in Boston. Rand Paul
veins want wannabes
If you're going to be a wannabe, make sure you 'wannabe' something great. The most shocking thing about wannabes, is they largely want to be something irrelevant, vein, or just plain petty. Andrew Williams
veins acid batteries
I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more. Chuck Palahniuk
veins lessons
The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited. Cyril Connolly
veins poisonous
Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins. Holly Black
veins exhausted
Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one. Henry David Thoreau
veins venus obsession
It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey. Jean Racine
veins slides kind
He that is drunken * * * Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins. George Herbert
veins language wave
I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves. Jean Cocteau
veins hitting mainstream
I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream. Jim Jarmusch