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ocean men hands
But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The deals of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business! Charles Dickens
ocean rhythm shore
The ocean asks for nothing but those who stand by her shores gradually attune themselves to her rhythm.
ocean men sea
A mob is usually a creature of very mysterious existence, particularly in a large city. Where it comes from, or whither it goes, few men can tell. Assembling and dispersing with equal suddenness, it is as difficult to follow to its various sources as the sea itself; nor does the parallel stop here, for the ocean is not more fickle and uncertain, more terrible when roused, more unreasonable or more cruel.
ocean arrows mountain
Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains and traverses deserts, with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow. Charles Caleb Colton
ocean often-is evil
Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.
ocean moon men
Some men of a secluded and studious life, have sent forth from their closet or their cloister, rays of intellectual light that have agitated courts, and revolutionized kingdoms; like the moon, that far removed from the ocean, and shining upon it with a serene and sober light, is the chief cause of all those ebbings and flowings which incessantly disturb that world of waters.
ocean rivers currents
Nobility is a river that sets with a constant and undeviating current, directly into the great Pacific Ocean of Time; but, unlike all other rivers, it is more grand at its source, than at its termination.
ocean sea waiting
It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.
ocean night men
All men are islands, surrounded by the bottomless oceans of unthinking night. Charles Stross
novices screwtape-letters
It is always the novice who exaggerates. C. S. Lewis
novices apprenticeship
I'm all for apprenticeships, but this is no time for a novice. David Cameron
novices shows knows
We were all novices. We really were. We didn't know a goddamn thing about doing a show. Jerome Robbins
novices masters
Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters. Jean Toomer
novices actors film
I consider myself a novice film actor. James Earl Jones
novices riders saddles
You can always tell a novice rider; they aren't comfortable in the saddle and have to hang on. Harry Carey, Jr.
novices would-be surprise
Ideally, I'd like to be the eternal novice, for then only the surprises would be endless. Keith Jarrett
indifference
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. Edmund Burke
indifference poet
RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem. Ambrose Bierce
indifference distinction indifferent
INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things.
indifference plague
Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference? Bernard Beckett
indifference pathology
Everything is pathology, except for indifference. Emile M. Cioran
indifference blind terror
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind. James A. Baldwin
indifference disguise toleration
Toleration is often just indifference in disguise. Frederick Buechner
indifference
A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference. Ian Fleming
indifference politeness organized
Politeness is organized indifference. Paul Valery