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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
playoff win
We're in a playoff situation, and we had to win this game. We didn't win, and we go home. Jim Litchfield
playoff situation string win
We're in a must-win situation every night. We have to win games. It's important to be a playoff team. We have a string of years and we want to keep that going. Rick Carlisle
playoff
We want to play (tonight) as if it's a playoff game.
playoff ricky
We're going to need everything out of Ricky ? and all of us ? to make a playoff run. Mark Parrish
playoffs talk trying win
We're just trying to get a win at this point. Can't talk about playoffs when you're losing. Baron Davis
playoff stay stuck together took tough win winning
This win is like winning a playoff game. We're a young team, we stuck together and took it like a man. It's tough to stay tough, but we did it.
playoffs ran team
We ran into a team that's really good. Nowadays, when the playoffs start, there's no underdogs. Chris Osgood
playoffs spirits
She's been doing well and her spirits are up. We'll see how she reacts when playoffs begin.
playoffs
When the playoffs start, it's a whole new season.
whether
I like tragedies, whether they're sci-fi or something else, but I can't say I know much about any genre in particular. Leos Carax
whether wonder
Whether they play (against Mitchell) is kind of up in the air. You have to wonder about their stamina.
whether
Whether they made the right choice, who knows? Pierce Brosnan
whether
Whether someone thought it was a joke, we take it very seriously. This is a food-tampering issue.
whether
Whether or not they do it is still in question.
whether
Whether my columns are worth reading isn't for me to say. John Podhoretz
whether
Whether it's us or them, it'll be a race.
whether
Whether it's fiction or nonfiction, writing takes me to another world. Leonard Mlodinow
whether
Ultimately, Captchas are useless for spam because they're designed to tell you if someone is 'human' or not, but not whether something is spam or not. Matt Mullenweg
winter darkness scrooge
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.
winter age lapland
Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
winning race looks
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.
wine order water
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.
wings gone originality
All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.
wind literature wave
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
wind fire tale-of-two-cities
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.
winning race obstacles
Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.
wine paris six
Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.