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country easy walks
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. Charles Dickens
country men climate
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least. Charles Caleb Colton
country travel home
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
country sadness men
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.
country heart simple
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.
country self names
The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.
country mean hands
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.
country night men
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.
country character men
Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.
lost-friendship sinister motive
Our very best friends have a tincture of jealousy even in their friendship; and when they hear us praised by others, will ascribe it to sinister and interested motives if they can.
loss men long
... I feel certain that his tale is true. Feeling that certainty, I befriend him. As long as that certainty shall last, I will befriend him. And if any consideration could shake me in this resolve, I should be so ashamed of myself for my meanness, that no man's good opinion - no, nor no woman's - so gained, could compensate me for the loss of my own.
loss names coffins
Your Honour, unless your Honour, without a moment's loss of time, makes sail for the nearest shore, this is a doomed ship, and her name is the Coffin!
loss months six
I was an early adopter: have been on the internet continuously since late 1989, barring a six-month loss of access in the early 90s. Charles Stross
lost
The gospel is not for you who can save yourselves, but for those who are lost. Charles Spurgeon
loss heaven would-be
If there were no hell, the loss of heaven would be hell.
lost ability nations
When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined. Alan Greenspan
loss animal focus
Focus all your meals around high-quality animal protein. You should eat a large variety, and plan your meals around which kind of protein you'll be eating. Al Sears
loss tables sugar
Potatoes have such a high GI rating; it's almost the same as eating table sugar.
sang wants
I sang the hymns, and I read the Bible stories, but I was always perplexed, like, 'Really? Jesus wants you for a sunbeam? For a what?' Neil Peart
sang
The first 'Charlemagne' album is metal, of course, but what I sang was more symphonic. Christopher Lee
sang
You know, Glen Campbell sang with the group right before I joined the group. Bruce Johnston
sang since straight sung taken until
We sang every one of the operettas -- straight through -- when we were in Rockville, Maryland, ... We sang from 8 a.m. until 3 a.m. Since then we've sung them all again, but we've taken it a little easier.
sang sing talented wife
My wife is a very talented singer. She sang a lot on 'Roswell,' and I am embarrassed to sing around her. David Walton
sang
I always sang in English. It's just that nobody heard me. Prince Royce
sang sentinel stars truce watch
Our bugles sang truce - for the night-cloud had lowered, / And the sentinel stars set their watch in the sky. Thomas Campbell
sang song worked
I not only worked with him, I sang a song with him. Jerry Nelson
tend
West Pointers tend to be rigorously honest - more than necessary, in my view. James Salter
tend
In Germany, actors tend to be more laid-back and take orders from the director: 'Tell me what you want.' I'm more into collaboration. So are Americans.
tend
When we, as humans, articulate, our tongues tend to hit the back of the teeth. Andy Serkis
tend
When I'm dining out privately, I tend to avoid fine-dining venues; I like things to feel casual. Nobu Matsuhisa
tendency
I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan. Laurie Helgoe
tend types
Moderates tend more than ideologues to be other-directed types who respond to external pressure. Timothy Noah
tend thinking
When I'm thinking like a historian, I tend to be a little depressed. But when I'm thinking like a Christian, I tend to be optimistic. Mark Noll
tend work
I tend to work in coffee shops. I need to get out of the house, and, well, I need the coffee.
tend
All actors tend to be the same messed-up people. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
toward wants
We're just working toward that now. Everyone wants to be in the same place at the end. Ryan Getzlaf
toward
For more than eight decades, Washington has been my hometown. My whole orientation is toward this place. Katharine Graham
toward victims violent
I think 'Dirty Harry' was probably sensitive toward the victims of violent crime. Clint Eastwood
toward
We still have a long way to go and we're still working toward that. Maurice Cheeks
towards
We are moving towards a new form of collective intelligence. Jane McGonigal
towards
I am very reactive towards everything. There are some who don't react at all, they absorb everything quietly, while I'd go all out and show my expressions. This is not part of some tamasha I do; I do it because it's part of my personality. To each his own. Preity Zinta
toward
I think a policy of isolationism toward Cuba is misplaced and hasn't worked. Rand Paul
toward vast within
One speck within vast star-space lyingAwoke, arose, resumed its clothing,And crawled another day toward dying.
toward western
It is going more and more toward the Western part of the world.