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self words-of-wisdom crowns
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money! Charles Dickens
self cells knaves
Alas! how has the social spirit of Christianity been perverted by fools at one time, and by knaves and bigots at another; by the self-tormentors of the cell, and the all-tormentors of the conclave! Charles Caleb Colton
self abuse doe
He that abuses his own profession will not patiently bear with any one else who does so. And this is one of our most subtle operations of self-love. For when we abuse our own profession, we tacitly except ourselves; but when another abuses it, we are far from being certain that this is the case.
self order should
Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be prudential, in order to be permanent, by providing that the reservoir which feeds should also be fed.
self-esteem war loser
We are sure to be losers when we quarrel with ourselves; it is civil war.
selfish character men
Old Mr. Rarx was not a pleasant man to look at, nor yet to talk to, or to be with, for no one could help seeing that he was a sordid and selfish character, and that he had warped further and further out of the straight with time.
selfish heart character
Notwithstanding his very liberal laudation of himself, however, the Major was selfish. It may be doubted whether there ever was a more entirely selfish person at heart; or at stomach is perhaps a better expression, seeing that he was more decidedly endowed with that latter organ than with the former.
self ecosystems space
I'd like to be proven wrong firstly on the difficulty of building a self-sustaining closed circuit ecosystem in space that can support human life. Charles Stross
self trouble needed
What is needed is not the removal of the trouble but the conquest of self. Charles Spurgeon
rainbow modesty
Blushes are the rainbow of modesty. Bill Vaughan
rainbow bully positive-energy
If anyone tries to bully you don’t let them. Take the positive energy form a ball of rainbow power and just, like shove it. Ariana Grande
rainbow way speak
If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine. Diana Wynne Jones
rainbow gold pot
We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them Diane Ravitch
rainbow english-words empty
English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows. Denis Johnson
rainbow puddles needs
We cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need -- the umbrella of God's love. Barbara Johnson
rainbow giving matter
Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter. Edward Abbey
rainbow poetry going-away
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. Carl Sandburg
rainbow monsters horror
All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live." - Peloquin Clive Barker
mistress compromise truth-is
Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises. Aiden Wilson Tozer
mistress her-beauty may
Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair? William Shakespeare
mistress sovereign opinion
Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects.
mistress expensive
You thought I was a lovelorn mistress and I was really just an expensive prostitute. Edith Wharton
mistress masters
I will have but one mistress and no master Elizabeth I
mistress court frailty
Court a mistress, she denies you; let her alone, she will court you. Ben Jonson
mistress language currents
Custom is the most certain mistress of language, as the public stamp makes the current money.
mistress calm
I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself. Jane Austen
mistress would-be facts
Well, once you've been in the Canyon and once you've sort of fallen in love with it, it never ends...it's always been a fascinating place to me, in fact I've often said that if I ever had a mistress it would be the Grand Canyon. Barry Goldwater