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eye home dark
Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world. Charles Dickens
eye numbers envy
As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of envy, notwithstanding their number, ought not to wound our virtue by reason of their insignificance. Charles Caleb Colton
eye sight sore-eyes
the sight of me is good for sore eyes Charles Dickens
eye men thinking
I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music. Charles Dickens
eye hands evil
But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless. Charles Dickens
eye hypocrisy shining
[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. Charles Dickens
eye mad black
An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror. Charles Dickens
eye light skins
With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing. Charles Dickens
eye thoughtful great-expectations
She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good. Charles Dickens
animal safety giving
Subtlety will sometimes give safety, no less than strength; and minuteness has sometimes escaped, where magnitude would have been crushed. The little animal that kills the boa is formidable chiefly from its insignificance, which is incompressible by the folds of its antagonist. Charles Caleb Colton
animal mind facts
You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts: nothing else will ever be of any service to them. Stick to Facts, sir! Charles Dickens
animal lions sulky
Quadruped lions are said to be savage, only when they are hungry; biped lions are rarely sulky longer than when their appetite for distinction remains unappeased. Charles Dickens
animal lust use
...the whole universe is through and through the playing of love in every shade of the word's use, from animal lust to divine charity. Alan Watts
animal envy simplicity
At times almost all of us envy the animals. They suffer and die, but do not seem to make a "problem" of it. Alan Watts
animal technology vegetables
"It is essential to understand this point thoroughly: that the thing-in-itself, whether animal, vegetable, or mineral, is not only unknowable-it does not exist. This is important not only for sanity and peace of mind, but also for the most "practical" reasons of economics, politics, and technology.. This is not to say only that things exist in relation to one another, but that what we call "things" are no more than glimpses of a unified process. Certainly, this process has distinct features which catch our attention, but we must remember that distinction is not separation." Alan Watts
animal acting kind
I'm very aware that when one is acting in the theater, you do become kind of animal about it. And you're reliant on instincts rather than tact a lot of the time. Alan Rickman
animal rocks rock-n-roll
Rock n Roll Animal, the live album, is one of the greatest live albums out there. It was a huge influence on me. Al Jourgensen
animal essence abuse
The abuse of a harmless thing is the essence of sin. Aiden Wilson Tozer
bears pleasure fullness
Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them? Charles Caleb Colton
bears relation persons
The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them. David Tang
bears ridicule
Love can bear anything better than ridicule. Caitlin Thomas
bears country lions mountain parts tend wolves
We still tend to think of mountain lions and bears and wolves as being endangered, and in some parts of the country they are, David Baron
bears beat cracked language move time tunes
Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity. Gustave Flaubert
bears obligation witness
I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time. Athol Fugard
bears fruit seeds
Seeds must be sown everywhere. Only some will bear fruit. But there would not be the fruit from the few had the many not been sown Chaim Potok
bears savages our-society
No European who has tasted savage life can afterwards bear to live in our societies. Benjamin Franklin
bears breeding ill
He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others Benjamin Franklin