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song writing pay
All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh is not the only statesman who has thought one hundred pounds too much for a song, though sung by Spenser; although Oliver Goldsmith is the only poet who ever considered himself to have been overpaid. Charles Caleb Colton
song world this-life
And O there are days in this life, worth life and worth death. And O what a bright old song it is, that O 'tis love, 'tis love, 'tis love that makes the world go round! Charles Dickens
song blue rivers
Heaven above was blue, and earth beneath was green; the river glistened like a path of diamonds in the sun; the birds poured forth their songs from the shady trees; the lark soared high above the waving corn; and the deep buzz of insects filled the air. Charles Dickens
song remember lows
I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low, 'Tis that I can't remember how They go. Charles Stuart Calverley
song pain men
Song of God and Son of Man, there He hangs, bearing pains unutterable, the just for the unjust, to bring us to God. Charles Spurgeon
song names heaven
Praise is the rehearsal of our eternal song. By grace we learn to sing, and in glory we continue to sing. What will some of you do when you get to heaven, if you go on grumbling all the way? Do not hope to get to heaven in that style. But now begin to bless the name of the Lord. Charles Spurgeon
song nature believe
The best thing is to go from nature's God dawn to nature; and if you once get to nature's God, and believe Him, and love Him, it is surprising how easy it is to hear music in the waves, and songs in the wild whisperings of the winds; to see God everywhere in the stones, in the rocks, in the rippling brooks, and hear Him everywhere, in the lowing of cattle, in the rolling of thunder, and in the fury of tempests. Get Christ first, put Him in the right place, and you will find Him to be the wisdom of God in your own experience. Charles Spurgeon
song grief mars
Our griefs cannot mar the melody of our praise, we reckon them to be the bass part of our life's song, 'He hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad.' Charles Spurgeon
song heart night
He who sings a song to Christ in the night, sings the best song in all the world; for he sings from the heart. Charles Spurgeon
cutting giving wealth
Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later. Charles Caleb Colton
cutting lions teeth
He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth. Charles Caleb Colton
cutting men turkeys
It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off. Charles Dickens
cutting garden weather
In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look out the window at it, by the hour together. He has always something to do there, and you will see him digging, and sweeping, and cutting, and planting, with manifest delight. Charles Dickens
cutting popularity minutes
I know God can cut it (popularity) off in a minute. Charles Stanley
cutting stones firsts
Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant. Charles Spurgeon
cutting scripture ifs
If you cut him, (John Bunyan) he'd bleed Scripture! Charles Spurgeon
cutting years bangs
Billions of years ago you were a big bang. But now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off. And don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are. Alan Watts
cutting light knives
The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, light doesn't illuminate itself. It's always an endless mystery to itself. Alan Watts
today lasts next
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem. Alan Perlis
today politics tomorrow
Who defines terrorists? Today's terrorist is tomorrow's friend. Al Sharpton
today problem gender
Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
today states form
States created markets. Markets require states. Neither could continue without the other, at least, in anything like the forms we would recognize today. David Graeber
today
Place only your kindest thoughts on everything you experience today. Meet yourself. Byron Katie
today year
We're in a much different place today than we were a year ago. Randy Waynick
today intention literal
I've never had any intentions about anything. That's why I am where I am today, which is neither here nor there, in a literal sense. Edward Gorey
today wonder
Way off in 2060, I wonder what we do today will look like in perspective, and after it's been sifted through the objectivity of time. Loretta Young
today bread enough
Bread for today is bread enough. Edward McKendree Bounds