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wind roots tree
Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop. Charlotte Bronte
wind literature wave
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. Charles Caleb Colton
wind fire tale-of-two-cities
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me. Charles Dickens
wind rising sawdust
It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising." Charles Dickens
wind east now-and-then
The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east. Charles Dickens
wind darkness woods
I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.) Bret Easton Ellis
wind skins mortality
We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality. Djuna Barnes
wind hair passionate
I want to live a passionate life. I always want to feel the wind in my hair. Dave Gorman
window tapping
Someone was tapping on the window. Dave Barry
tragedy
Tragedy alters everything. Diane Setterfield
tragedy storytelling form
Tragedy is a great storytelling form. It worked extremely well for Shakespeare. It worked extremely well for Jim Cameron with Titanic. Carlton Cuse
tragedy want novel
Not every novel that wants to be a tragedy gets to be one. Jane Smiley
tragedy saint christianity
Unsaintly saints are the tragedy of Christianity. Aiden Wilson Tozer
tragedy departure earth
I despised my arrival on this earth and I despise my departure; it is a tragedy. William Shakespeare
tragedy body want
The utter failure came at the Crucifixion in the tragic words, 'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' If you want to understand the full tragedy of those words you must realize what they meant: Christ saw that his whole life, devoted to the truth according to his best conviction, had been a terrible illusion. He had lived it to the full absolutely sincerely, he had made his honest experiment, but it was nevertheless a compensation. On the cross his mission deserted him. But because he had lived so fully and devotedly he won through to the Resurrection body. Carl Jung
tragedy life-is lows
The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim. Benjamin E. Mays
tragedy wealth faster
Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy. Charlie Munger
tragedy investing typical
Here's one truth that perhaps your typical investment counselor would disagree with: if you're comfortably rich and someone else is getting richer faster than you by, for example, investing in risky stocks, so what?! Someone will always be getting richer faster than you. This is not a tragedy. Charlie Munger
thrones lefties democrat
Obliging elected Democrats willingly pander to the radical lefties who elevated them to their throne. Bob Beauprez
thrones virtue weak
Weak is that throne, and in itself unsound, Which takes not solid virtue for its ground. Charles Churchill
thrones pulpit preacher
I would rather be a preacher in a pulpit than a prince on a throne Christopher Love
thrones married slave
La femme marie e est un esclave qu'il faut savoir mettre sur un tro" n e. A married woman is a slave whom one must put on a throne. Honore de Balzac
thrones oratory fierce
Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne. John Milton
thrones tubs found
Diogenes found more rest in his tub than Alexander on his throne. Francis Quarles
thrones slave should
I am the very slave of circumstance And impulse borne away with every breath! Misplaced upon the throne misplaced in life. I know not what I could have been, but feel I am not what I should be let it end. Lord Byron
thrones empty
An empty throne always tempts me. Napoleon Bonaparte
thrones taverns chairs
A tavern chair is the throne of human felicity. Samuel Johnson