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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.
worst-enemy knees helping
Fear to fear. Be afraid to be afraid. Your worst enemy is within your own bosom. Get to your knees and cry for help, and then rise up saying, 'I will trust, and not be afraid.' Charles Spurgeon
worst unbelief
Unbelief will destroy the best of us; faith will save the worst of us.
worst-moments care crowds
The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and I started coughing, and I couldn't get the words out. It lasted for like thirty seconds, but I got over it, and luckily the crowd didn't seem to care. Chris Brown
worst
Are you the sum total of your worst acts? Bryan Stevenson
worst-person worst persons
I'm the worst person about publicizing myself. Aida Turturro
worst-enemy highlander ifs
Highlanders make the truest friends-if only because they make the worst enemies. Diana Gabaldon
worst-enemy modern-life cuban
We should sell them to our worst enemies, the Russians and the Cubans. Ed Koch
worst-enemy your-best-friend reggae
Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend && Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy Bob Marley
worst-enemy choices mind
Your mind . . . can be your best friend or your worst enemy, but it's your choice to make. Demi Lovato
novelty impress please
Novelties please less than they impress.
novel mediums prose
My medium is prose, not the novel. David Shields
novel
For me, novels coalesce into being, rather than arrive fully formed. David Mitchell
novelists novel livelihood
I'm a novelist, that's how I make my livelihood, and I concentrate on the novels.
novel
I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel. David Quammen
novel could-have-been has-beens
History is a novel that has been lived, a novel is history that could have been. Edmond de Goncourt
novelty please accounts
Such is the nature of novelty that where anything pleases it becomes doubly agreeable if new; but if it displeases, it is doubly displeasing on that very account. David Hume
novel knows
When you decide to adapt some Russian novel, it's like everyone knows about it but nobody has read it. Audrey Tautou
novel monologues i-can
This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue. Carol Shields