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fall rain wind
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Charles Dickens
fall mind excess
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
fall vanity world
He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble. Charles Caleb Colton
fall velocity vacuums
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.
fall errors giving
Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!
fall giving wife
There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife. He that deserts the latter, and gives himself up entirely to the guidance of the former, will certainly fall into many pitfalls and quagmires, like him who walks by flashes of lightning, rather than the steady beams of the sun.
fall errors common
Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those, who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire; and when they had the prudence to acquire, had no longer the power to enjoy.
fall passion world
You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?
fall scary house
Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.
tree shade way
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
tree world this-world
We do not "come into" this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. Alan Watts
tree sun bigs
When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun. Chinua Achebe
tree lizards praise
The lizard that jumped from a high Iroko tree to the ground said he would praise himself if no-one else did.
tree making-love skins
My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark. Casey Affleck
tree tongue shows
Tongues I'll hang on every tree That shall civil sayings show. . . . William Shakespeare
tree remember sometimes
It sometimes takes a foreigner to come and see a place and paint it. I remember someone saying they had never really noticed the palm trees here until I painted them. David Hockney
tree literature fruit
Our Lord never condemned the fig tree because it brought forth so much fruit that some fell to the ground and spoiled. He only cursed it when it was barren. Edwin Louis Cole
tree bent grows
As the tree is bent, so it will grow. Bill O'Reilly
paradise stories kind
When we realize that there is never a single story about any place, we regain a kind of paradise. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
paradise vastness spirituality
This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always. Byron Katie
paradise way satan
To Paradise, the Arabs say, Satan could never find the way Until the peacock led him in. Charles Godfrey Leland
paradise academy
The academy is not paradise. But learning is a place where paradise can be created. bell hooks
paradise another-day precious-gifts
Another day in paradise' was his inevitable pronouncement when he settled his head on his pillow. Now I understand what that meant: the uneventful day was a precious gift. Abraham Verghese
paradise
A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell! Thomas Fuller
paradise earth gender
Women are all we know of paradise on this earth. Albert Camus
paradise flow tides
How small these rescued tides appear! Earthly delights flow in torrents. Each object offers paradise. Andre Breton
paradise links passed-away
The Sabbath is the link between the paradise which has passed away and the paradise which is yet to come. Andrew Wylie