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english-writer whom
As for my brothers, of whom I had three, I know not how they were bred. Margaret Cavendish
english-writer marriage
One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague. Robert Burton
english-writer talker whom
Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter. Gerald Brenan
english-writer means
Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the world is love. The poor know that it is money.
english-writer shun
We met, 'twas in a crowd, and I thought he would shun me. Thomas Haynes Bayly
english-writer
If a thing be really good, it can be shown to be such. William Godwin
english-writer human
There is reverence that we owe to everything in human shape.
english-writer
Preach not because you have to say something, but because you have something to say. Richard Whately
english-writer few men side truth
All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.
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