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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.
hypocrite class gold
Gold is worshipped in all climates, without a single temple, and by all classes, without a single hypocrite.
hypocrite hypocrisy heaven
Hypocrites act by virtue.... They frame many counterfeits of her, with which they make an ostentatious parade, in all public assemblies, and processions; but the original of what they counterfeit, and which may indeed be said to have fallen from heaven, they produce so seldom, that it is cankered by the rust of sloth, and useless from non-application.
hypocrite laughing hypocrisy
If Satan ever laughs, it must be at hypocrites; they are the greatest dupes he has.
hypocrite men hypocrisy
Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst. Charles Spurgeon
hypocrite matter easy
It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time.
hypocrite politics poodles
I don't like politics, hypocrites, folks with poodles... Alan Jackson
hypocrite good-things being-a-hypocrite
The good thing about being a hypocrite is that you get to keep your values. Alan Alda
hypocrite courses
I'm a hypocrite, of course, and I live with that, but I live. David Guterson
hypocrite heart race
Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
ideals
Ideals we do not make. We discover, not invent, them. Charles Henry Parkhurst
ideals concessions
I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals. Coco Chanel
ideals process transcends truth
The process of writing a story isn't about fair. It's about getting to the heart of your story, getting to the truth of it. It transcends ideals of fair and unfair, right and wrong. Lynn Coady
ideals nation
You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertising. Norman Douglas
ideals keats poems says wants
Keats writes better about poems than anybody I've ever read. The things that he says about what he wants his own poems to be are the ideals that I share. Andrew Motion
ideals ideas thoughts-and-thinking
Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough. Source Unknown
ideals lives lost particular relatives service united
particular to the relatives and friends of those who lost their lives in the service of the ideals of the United Nations. Kofi Annan
ideals intrigued model mozart ours people reason virtue wanting
Ours has much more to do with the Masonic theme. Mozart was really intrigued by the ideals of the Masons and wanting to have truth, virtue and reason be the model by which people live by.
ideals
I have tried to do what is true and not ideal. Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec