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ocean men hands
But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business! Charles Dickens
ocean rhythm shore
The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm. Charles Dickens
ocean men sea
A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men can tell. Assembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more unreasonable or more cruel. Charles Dickens
ocean arrows mountain
Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow. Charles Caleb Colton
ocean often-is evil
Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle. Charles Caleb Colton
ocean moon men
Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts, and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon, that far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that world of waters. Charles Caleb Colton
ocean rivers currents
Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current, directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike all other rivers, it is more grand at its source, than at its termination. Charles Caleb Colton
ocean sea waiting
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck. Charles Caleb Colton
ocean night men
All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night. Charles Stross
sage world may
Much as the sage may affect to despise the opinion of the world, there are few who would not rather expose their lives a hundred times than be condemned to live on, in society, but not of it - a by-word of reproach to all who know their history, and a mark for scorn to point his finger at. Charles Mackay
sage impunity
All great sages are as despotic as generals, and as ungracious and indelicate as generals, because they are confident of their impunity. Anton Chekhov
sage merit attention
The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them. Baltasar Gracian
sage doe protection
The only good place for a sage grouse to be listed is on the menu of a French bistro. It does not deserve federal protection, period. Jason Chaffetz
sage
I think that's overrated. Sage will be fine. Bryan Gilmore
sage limits reason
The whole object of the Prophets and the Sages was to declare that a limit is set to human reason where it must halt. Maimonides
sage body made
Sage made me complete. He made me happy. He was as much a part of me as my own body. How could anyone lose that and still exist?" - Clea Raymond Hilary Duff
sage opinion
The sages of old live again in us, and in opinions there is a metempsychosis. Joseph Glanvill
sage doe profit
He is a despicable sage whose wisdom does not profit himself. Publilius Syrus
tides miscommunication
Tide goes in, tide goes out. Never a miscommunication. You can't explain that. You can't explain why the tide goes in. Bill O'Reilly
tides
Tide comes in, tide goes out, you can't explain it! Bill O'Reilly
tides poppies bonfire
And far and wide, in a scarlet tide, The poppy's bonfire spread. Bayard Taylor
tides flow wealth
Wealth is a tide which flows into one place by ebbing from another. Austin O'Malley
tides rising boat
Online education is like a rising tide, it's going to lift all boats, Anant Agarwal
tides one-thing
It's the tide. It's the dismal tide. It's not the one thing. Cormac McCarthy
tides body evolution
The tide of evolution carries everything before it, thoughts no less than bodies, and persons no less than nations. George Santayana
tides sometimes
I say to myself, sometimes the tide is just out. But it always comes back in again. Jewel
tides details great-nations
The personal was, compared with the tides of great nations, a bothersome detail. Gregory Benford