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inspiring kindness inspiration
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. Charles Caleb Colton
inspiring fun offering
But once I acclimated and really used fame for what it was offering me as a tool to serve my life purpose of inspiring and contributing, then it started to get fun again. Alanis Morissette
inspiring lying eye
There is always something taboo, something repressed, unadmitted, or just glimpsed quickly out of the corner of one's eye because a direct look is too unsettling. Taboos lie within taboos, like the skin of an onion. Alan Watts
inspiring space patterns
Total situations are, therefore, patterns in time as much as patterns in space. Alan Watts
inspiring confused levels
The sense of wrong is simply failure to see where something fits into a pattern, to be confused as to the hierarchical level upon which an event belongs. Alan Watts
inspiring conventions deceived
To be free from convention is not to spurn it but not to be deceived by it. Alan Watts
inspiring struggle killing
The more we struggle for life as pleasure, the more we are actually killing what we love. Alan Watts
inspiring frustration trying
Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself. Alan Watts
inspiring mistake cat
The problem comes up because we ask the question in the wrong way. We supposed that solids were one thing and space quite another, or just nothing whatever. Then it appeared that space was no mere nothing, because solids couldn't do without it. But the mistake in the beginning was to think of solids and space as two different things, instead of as two aspects of the same thing. The point is that they are different but inseparable, like the front end and the rear end of a cat. Cut them apart, and the cat dies. Alan Watts
women resentment consequence
Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment. Charles Caleb Colton
women flower sun
Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys. Charles Caleb Colton
women want ornaments
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity. Charles Caleb Colton
women intellectual female
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male. Charles Caleb Colton
women doe attention
The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not. Charles Caleb Colton
women modest bashful
Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest. Charles Caleb Colton
women decorum length
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths. Charles Caleb Colton
women said mould
She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, . . . 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too! Charles Dickens
women want today
You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women. Alan Jay Lerner
knowledge men order
Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge simplicity complicated
The further we advance in knowledge, the more simplicity shall we discover in those primary rules that regulate all the apparently endless, complicated, and multiform operations of the Godhead. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge class ferns
In the pursuit of knowledge, follow it wherever it is to be found; like fern, it is the produce of all climates, and like coin, its circulation is not restricted to any particular class. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge performances pretension
The highest knowledge can be nothing more than the shortest and clearest road to truth; all the rest is pretension, not performance, mere verbiage and grandiloquence, from which we can learn nothing. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge discovery views
It has been observed that a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant will see farther than the giant himself; and the moderns, standing as they do on the vantage ground of former discoveries and uniting all the fruits of the experience of their forefathers, with their own actual observation, may be admitted to enjoy a more enlarged and comprehensive view of things than the ancients themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge pay despise
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge perfect brain
The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge science two
Knowledge is two-fold, and consists not only in an affirmation of what is true, but in the negation of that which is false. Charles Caleb Colton
knowledge world lifts
Let no knowledge satisfy but that which lifts above the world, which weans from the world, which makes the world a footstool. Charles Spurgeon