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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.
pearls needs rope
A women needs ropes and ropes of pearls. Coco Chanel
pearls madness howl
At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls. Aberjhani
pearls sand grains-of-sand
From a grain of sand in the Pearl comes. Confucius
pearls sand best-work
Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it. Joni Mitchell
pearls advertising wonderful
From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor. Jerry Della Femina
pearls diamond chemist
So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond. Karl Marx
pearls needs rope
A woman needs ropes and ropes of pearls. Grace Kelly
pearls would-be lines
Somewhere along the line, the pearl would be handed to me. Jack Kerouac
pearls values
Value them; they are pearls of great price P. C. Cast
jam epitome traffic
The epitome of the human realm is to be stuck in a huge traffic jam of discursive thought. Chogyam Trungpa
james
I'm a big James Bond fan. I've got a collection of them. Heikki Kovalainen
jamie sacraments jamie-fraser
That's what marriage is good for; it makes a sacrament out of things ye'd otherwise have to confess. Jamie Fraser Diana Gabaldon
jam band shapes
I certainly hope my music is in no way, shape or form influenced by anything that would be known as a jam band. If it is, then I'm going to do something else. Charlie Hunter
jamaica water fool
In the abundance of water - the fool is thirsty Bob Marley
jamaica my-family
My family were from Jamaica. Diane Abbott
james moved pop
I often thought that if I had been working with Mark James at American Studios, I would have had a pop hit before I ever moved out of Memphis. But that didn't happen. Ronnie Milsap
jam miles traffic
There are never any traffic jams on the extra mile. Brian Tracy
james performing sending writes
In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script. Gary Shteyngart