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country easy walks
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. Charles Dickens
country men climate
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least. Charles Caleb Colton
country travel home
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
country sadness men
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.
country heart simple
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.
country self names
The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.
country mean hands
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.
country night men
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.
country character men
Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.
4th-of-july enemy forgiving
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him. Benjamin Franklin
4th-of-july people small-packages
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
4th-of-july estates trade
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.
4th-of-july thee shops
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee.
4th-of-july sea tyrants
Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."
4th-of-july virtue ill
He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue.
4th-of-july long wish
Wish not so much to live long as to live well.
4th-of-july liberty wealth
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
4th-of-july noses wipe
Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose.
definitions protest restraint
In my definition I am a protest writer, with restraint. Chinua Achebe
definitions would-be world
The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics. Bruno Latour
definitions standards computing
The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand. Bill Joy
definitions able sound
But when you have to deal with notes, and to be able to make a full definition of what a sound is - if you are not around that environment, then you'll find you lose that feel, that momentum, you lose all that. Dennis Brown
definitions pops these-days
I guess everyone has their own definition of what folk is or pop or whatever. I find it incredibly hard to describe music these days. Ed Droste
definitions pragmatism bottom
The definition of definition is at bottom just what the maxim of pragmatism expresses. Charles Sanders Peirce
definitions how-to-love would-be
Imagine how much easier it would be for us to learn how to love if we began with a shared definition. bell hooks
definitions firsts figures
By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around. Barry Sonnenfeld
definitions obedience said
You’ll come with us,” she said. “Sure,” Gavin said. “It wasn’t a request.” “Yes it was,” Gavin said. “When you don’t have power to compel obedience, by definition you’re making a request. Brent Weeks