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book night men
Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking. Charles Dickens
book reading writing
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
book knowledge men
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body. Charles Caleb Colton
book reading advice
When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.
book merit lovers
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.
book reading writing
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
book reading writing
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
book writing companion
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.
book men soul
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
cannot conflicts parliament solved strengthen
We want to strengthen democracy. When conflicts cannot be solved in parliament they should be solved by citizens. Jaroslaw Kaczynski
cannot democracy island regime send signal strong surrounded
We want to send a strong signal to the regime in Swaziland that it cannot be an island surrounded by democracy in the region. Zwelinzima Vavi
cannot cause continue including received spur ted work
Much like the conservationists who previously have received the Audubon Medal, including Stewart Udall, Rachel Carson and Ted Turner, I realize that this recognition cannot be a cause to rest, but a spur to continue our work. Louis Bacon
cannot dream
You cannot kill a breeze, a wind, a fragrance; you cannot kill a dream or an ambition. Michel Onfray
cannot empty fathom good players souls stories tried whatever work
Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out. Morgan Wootten
cannot choices choose deeply inspirational life today until
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday, that person cannot say, I choose otherwise.
cannot choice choices choose deeply otherwise today until
Until a person can say deeply and honestly, "I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday," that person cannot say, "I choose otherwise
cannot clearer congress count domestic help house looking remedy totally white
We are looking to Congress, ... It is clearer than ever that America's domestic manufacturers cannot count on any help from the White House to remedy this totally unacceptable situation.
cannot ensure forget happened remember side
We are at their side as they suffer. One cannot forget what happened and one must remember to ensure it does not happen again.
constitution should caution
The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution. Carl Levin
constitution court decided essential fee imposing indiana pleased programs school services
We are pleased the court decided the Indiana Constitution prohibits the Evansville school corporation from imposing a fee for programs and services that are essential to young Hoosiers' education.
constitution subvert truth united wants
The truth is that anyone... that wants to subvert our Constitution to Shariah Law is an enemy of the United States. Louie Gohmert
constitution not-sure consent
I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best. Benjamin Franklin
constitution
We seek not to overthrow the constitution, but to overthrow those who would prevert it. Abraham Lincoln
constitution deliberate division emphatic extensive majority power preventing unbridled
In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule. Robert W. Welch, Jr.
constitution government great republic
Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. Gerald R. Ford
constitution
Our constitution got built around the idea of minority protection. Eula Biss
constitution continue county department engaged ensure equitable fair ferguson louis places work
Ferguson and St. Louis County are not the first places that we have become engaged to ensure fair and equitable policing, and they will not be the last. The Department of Justice will continue to work tirelessly to ensure that the Constitution has meaning for all communities. Eric Holder
gaps rich poor
If I was a Marxist I'd call it the crisis of capitalism. Even though I'm not a Marxist, that seems like a not unreasonable term for the widening gap between the rich and poor that we're seeing ... Charles Stross
gaps looks significant
There are still substantial areas of disagreement, .. you simply have to look at the public statements to see there is a significant gap. David Trimble
gaps knowledge liked sake socrates sort
What I always liked about Socrates was his insistence on questioning things for the sake of reaching some sort of clarity - even if it is only clarity about the gaps in our knowledge. Samantha Harvey
gaps technological security
The more technological a society is, the greater the security gap is. Bruce Schneier
gaps last pressure stayed supposed year
We stayed in the gaps like we were supposed to and put pressure on the quarterback. We didn't see much of that last year, but this year we got after him. Brian Robison
gaps knowledge
There are some significant gaps in people's knowledge, Michael Greco
gaps spirituality demon
Since the beginning of time, spirituality and religion have been called to fill in the gaps that science did not understand. Dan Brown
gaps should
Changes occur because there’s a gap between what is and what should be. Craig McCaw
gaps looks like-you
Gap clothing allows you to look like you're from nowhere and anywhere. Douglas Coupland
god lasts tiny
God bless us every one! said Tiny Tim, the last of all.
god magnitude
God is as great in minuteness as He is in magnitude.
god men law
Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.
god two forgive-me
I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together.
godmother good-things lost
Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?
godly spirit holy-spirit
Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do. Charles Stanley
god christian doubt
God wants to cast out the fear and doubt in your life. Go before Him right now and say, "Lord, this is what I am afraid of ..."
god prayer christian-inspirational
We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.
god disappointment choices
Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.
history who-we-are way
History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are. David McCullough
history want done
No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read.
history social shank
History is the shank of the social sciences. C. Wright Mills
history lafayette might
For women, history does not exist. Murasaki, Sappho, and Madame Lafayette might be their own contemporaries. Cesare Pavese
history want grants
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant. Cary Grant
history
When you think about it, history is made to be broken. That's the way we look at it.
history lists surprise
History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again. Kurt Vonnegut
history
History! Read it and weep!
history disposition efficacy
But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. Edward Gibbon
iraqi
I've never been embedded with American soldiers or British soldiers or Iraqi soldiers or any other. Robert Fisk
iraqi question singling
Singling out the question of inspectors is wrong. There is the Iraqi issue, and in that issue, there are many items, there are many areas, and some of them are very, very important to the Iraqi people. Tariq Aziz
iraqis job last money projects short supposed
Most of these projects were supposed to be done last year. If U.S. money had been made available, Iraqis could have done the job faster. Whichever way you look in the short term, it comes back to security.
iraqi issues providing side until wait
We are going through many of the issues, outstanding disarmament issues. The Iraqi side is providing explanation on some of the issues ... We are discussing, but we have to wait until tomorrow. Mohamed ElBaradei
iraqis needed reaction
The reaction that's needed by the Iraqis -- they need to come together. Zalmay Khalilzad
iraqis positive
positive day for the Iraqis and as well for world peace. George H. W. Bush
iraqis
Furthermore, the Iraqis do not want to be more Palestinians than the Palestinians themselves, Jalal Talabani
iraqis level unity urge
We urge the Iraqis to be up to the level of responsibility... to keep Iraq's unity and safety.
iraqi people suspect
I suspect that most Iraqi people were as horrified,
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude.
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
taken two expectations
I must be taken as I have been made. The success is not mine, the failure is not mine, but the two together make me.
taken ignorance men
It is a curious paradox that precisely in proportion to our own intellectual weakness will be our credulity, to those mysterious powers assumed by others; and in those regions of darkness and ignorance where man cannot effect even those things that are within the power of man, there we shall ever find that a blind belief in feats that are far beyond those powers has taken the deepest root in the minds of the deceived, and produced the richest harvest to the knavery of the deceiver.
taken law wish
A town, before it can be plundered and, deserted, must first be taken; and in this particular Venus has borrowed a law from her consort Mars. A woman that wishes to retain her suitor must keep him in the trenches; for this is a siege which the besieger never raises for want of supplies, since a feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation. Inanition may cause it to die a slow death, but repletion always destroys it by a sudden one.
taken connections physiognomy
There is nothing truer than physiognomy, taken in connection with manner.
taken skeletons wind
Blackened skeleton arms of wood by the wayside pointed upward to the convent, as if the ghosts of former travellers, overwhelmed by the snow, haunted the scene of their distress. Icicle-hung caves and cellars built for refuges from sudden storms, were like so many whispers of the perils of the place; never-resting wreaths and mazes of mist wandered about, hunted by a moaning wind; and snow, the besetting danger of the mountain, against which all its defences were taken, drifted sharply down.
taken thinking voice
Ah, sinner, may the Lord quicken thee! But it is a work that makes the Saviour weep. I think when He comes to call some of you from your death in sin, He comes weeping and sighing for you. There is a stone that is to be rolled away--your bad and evil habits--and when that stone is taken away, a still small voice will not do for you; it must be the loud crashing voice, like the voice of the Lord which breaketh the cedars of Lebanon. Charles Spurgeon
taken blood two
Every sinner must be quickened by the same life, made obedient to the same gospel, washed in the same blood, clothed in the same righteousness, filled with the same divine energy, and eventually taken up to the same heaven, and yet in the conversion of no two sinners will you find matters precisely the same.
taken heart christ
When you receive Christ into your heart, He cannot be taken away from you!
taken grieving giving
Your sorrow itself shall be turned into joy. Not the sorrow to be taken away, and joy to be put in its place, but the very sorrow which now grieves you shall be turned into joy. God not only takes away the bitterness and gives sweetness in its place, but turns the bitterness into sweetness itself.