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greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Charles Caleb Colton
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away. Charles Dickens
great-expectations strange melancholy
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
great-expectations may done
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
great-expectations may let-me
Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
honor fickle opinion
Honor is unstable and seldom the same; for she feeds upon opinion, and is as fickle as her food.
honor albums robotics
I had the honor of speaking with Asimov. The album ended up being something not directly related to Asimov, but related instead to the concept of the power of robotics. Alan Parsons
honor sacred noble
To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. David McCullough
honor loses ifs
If I lose my honor, I lose myself: better I were not yours Than yours so branchless. William Shakespeare
honor dues no-point
The due of honor in no point omit.
honor customs ifs
If is a custom, More honor'd in the breach than the observance.
honor criticism sometimes
I have been both praised and criticized. The criticism stung, but the praise sometimes bothered me even more. To have received such praise and honors has always been puzzling to me. Billy Joel
honor culture celebrate
A culture of honor is celebrating who a person is without stumbling over who they're not. Bill Johnson
honor balance insane
Henke sensed her terrifying aptitude for destruction as never before. Henke had feared for her sanity; now she knew the truth was almost worse than that. Honor wasn't insane - she simply didn't care. She'd lost not only her sense of balance but any desire to regain it. David Weber
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
travel home appreciate
Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.
travel home calling
My yearn for home is broadened Patriotism expanded By callings from beyond So I pack my things Nothing precious All things sacred Alanis Morissette
travel journey giving
Nothing gives me as much pleasure as travelling. I love getting on trains and boats and planes. Alan Rickman
travel land long
Do you remember the church across the sands? You stood outside and planned to travel the lands, where the pilgrims go. So you packed your world up inside a canvas sack, set off down the highway with your rings and Kerouac. Someone said they saw you in Nepal a long time back. Tell me why you look away, don't you have a word to say? Al Stewart
travel memories adventure
Take only memories, leave only footprints. Chief Seattle
travel native-american men
Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work. Chief Joseph
travel london foreigners
As a foreigner in London, I like that there are so many other foreigners. David Sedaris
travel wish tourism
Never trust anything you read in a travel article. Travel articles appear in publications that sell large, expensive advertisements to tourism-related industries, and these industries do not wish to see articles with headlines like: URUGUAY: DON'T BOTHER. Dave Barry
travel car trying
Just get on any major highway, and eventually it will dead-end in a Disney parking area large enough to have its own climate, populated by large nomadic families who have been trying to find their cars since the Carter administration.