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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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
proportion
There is likely to be beauty wherever proportion exists. Austin O'Malley
proportion
In the same proportion Russia is the misfortune of Europe and the Israelites. Isaac Mayer Wise
proportion given form
What one reads, or rather all that comes to us, is surely only of interest and value in proportion as we find ourselves therein, -- form given to what was vague, what slumbered stirred to life. Alice James
proportion humour
A sense of humour is a sense of proportion. Khalil Gibran
proportion realised
Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion. Mahatma Gandhi
proportion music-is whole
It is proportion that beautifies everything, the whole universe consists of it, and music is measured by it. Orlando Gibbons
proportion wells traveller
Good writers will, indeed, do well to imitate the ingenious traveller. . .who always proportions his stay in any place. Henry Fielding
proportion free-time direct
Your success will be in direct proportion to how you spend your ‘free’ time. Mike Dunlap
proportion reached traffic volume
The volume of traffic has reached a proportion that?s scary. Jay Anderson
fling kick people perfectly
The people are never so perfectly backed, but that they will kick and fling if not stroked at seasonable times. George Savile
fling kindred love
May love's kindred treasure box fling your luminescent glove. Isabel Yosito
fling name
Just a little fling and that's over with, ... And now I think I'm making my name with tennis. So that's what I'm here to do. Robby Ginepri
fling receiver
I don't know if he can read anything. The first receiver better be open, but he can fling it. Kurt Warner
fling
It's not the thing you fling, it's the fling itself. Chris Stevens
fling i-can
I'm not one for flings, I can tell you that. Julian Lennon