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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.
vocabulary disease opponents
In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can succumb. But contradictions are the very stuff of life. If there had been a little dash of contradiction among the Gadarene swine some of them might have been saved from drowning. Chinua Achebe
vocabulary matter building
Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using. David Crystal
vocabulary biting opinion
My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem. Charles Frazier
vocabulary use cult
Cults use our vocabulary, but they don't use our dictionary. Charles R. Swindoll
vocabulary going-away trying
Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors. Dean Koontz
vocabulary language drawbacks
I find vocabulary to be a great drawback. Elizabeth Taylor
vocabulary entrepreneur taught
The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values. Edward Abbey
vocabulary
Humor is not far from my vocabulary. Edward Herrmann
vocabulary mortality hermes
Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank. Allen Tate
alive did-you-know knows
How did you know you're alive, unless you'd once been dead? Alan Watts
alive theater streets
I am more alive in the theater than anywhere else, but what I take into the theater I get from the streets. Al Pacino
alive way directors
Great directors can understand the staging in such a way that can make a scene come alive. Others have a certain way of pacing the scene.
alive said
No one said living isn't a pretty chancy business, Sibyl. No one gets out of here alive. Chris Bohjalian
alive theater audience
I love the theater because the theater is alive. The audience is right there. Chita Rivera
alive someday human-condition
The Human Condition being, basically, that we’re alive and have access to beauty, can even erratically create it, but will someday be dead and will not. Chad Harbach
alive majesty assuming
No,' the professor replied. 'Her Majesty s alive and well - at least I assume so if she hasn't met a certain van driver from Yeovil.' ~Professor Hamilton Bryan Davis
alive born bryan
Bryan Lee O'Malley has been alive since he was born and will lives until he dies. Bryan Lee O'Malley
alive concern family kids rising share tuition
I now have two kids of my own in college, so I know how important it is that we keep the dream alive for every family and I share the concern about rising tuition costs. Mark Kennedy