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men
Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day. Charles Dickens
men hair doors
An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.
men brotherhood common
The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.
men fellow-man spirit
It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.
men laughing people
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
men judging world
Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.
men coats shabby
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat. Charles Caleb Colton
men talking two
When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.
men years two
No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.
reign virtue monk
[All] the manly virtues were oppressed by the servile and pusillanimous reign of the monks. Edward Gibbon
reign ruins needs
The world needs more true praying to save it from the reign and ruin of Satan. Edward McKendree Bounds
reign becoming mediocrity
That in all times, mediocrity has dominated, that is indubitable; but that it reigns more than ever, that it is becoming absolutely triumphant and inhibiting, this is what is as true as it is distressing. Charles Baudelaire
reign truth-is crime
And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is being destroyed? Blaise Pascal
reign shepherds ashes
I find that I sent wolves not shepherds to govern Ireland, for they have left me nothing but ashes and carcasses to reign over! Elizabeth I
reign saws corny
Obsolescence and death, the reign of the archaic, the abandoned, and the corny: Really, if you saw Windows 3.0 on the sidewalk outside the building, would you bend over and pick it up?!? Bruce Sterling
reign blind
Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns Andrew Marvell
reign
Paris must not be a cemetery. I do not wish to reign over the dead. Henry IV
reign fickle crowns
Fickle Fortune reigns, and, undiscerning, scatters crowns and chains. Alexander Pope
mischief bits
Something that just came out of me. It was a bit of mischief. Diego Maradona
mischief nuisance political
They're up to political mischief and making a nuisance of themselves." () Mike McCurry
mischief wise
Every one is wise when the mischief is done.
mischief swear
I solemnly swear that I am up to no good. J. K. Rowling
mischief
I could get up to a lot of mischief and no one would know it was me Cat Deeley
mischief
He that mischief hatcheth, mischief catcheth. William Camden