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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.
oasis boredom desert
An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom. Charles Baudelaire
oasis hussein saddam
Saddam Hussein is Hitler like Oasis was The Beatles. Bill Maher
oasis
I will always be an Oasis. Liam Gallagher
oasis europe america
But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most primitive and superstitious Arab of the remotest oases, are a little more than kin and never less than kind at their worst; whereas in the United States one is almost always conscious of an instinctive lack of sympathy and understanding with even the most charming and cultured people. Aleister Crowley
oasis peace references remember
Remember all those references to Macedonia as the oasis of peace in the Balkans. You only really appreciate it when you have lost it. Boris Trajkovski
oasis
Each one of us can be an oasis of peace. Desmond Tutu
oasis
I actually went to an Oasis concert. I thought they were a brilliant songwriting band. Tom Stoppard
oasis earth tiny
The universe is specifically tweaked to enable life on earth-a planet with scores of improbable and interdependent life-supporting conditions that make it a tiny oasis in a vast and hostile universe. Norman Geisler
oasis band stones
Live are a really good band. I like Stone Temple Pilots, Radiohead I love. Even Oasis. Nuno Bettencourt
zealous failing conversion
The most zealous converters are always the most rancorous when they fail of producing conversion.
zealous zeal ifs
When you are laboring for others, let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself. Confucius
zealous savior disciple
A zealous Savior ought to have zealous disciples. J. C. Ryle
zealous ends commencement
Zealous in the commencement, careless in the end. Tacitus