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book night men
Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking. Charles Dickens
book reading writing
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
book knowledge men
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body. Charles Caleb Colton
book reading advice
When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.
book merit lovers
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.
book reading writing
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
book reading writing
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
book writing companion
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.
book men soul
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
pouring insult comeback
Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail. Edouard Manet
pouring endless holes
You just can't keep pouring money down an endless hole and never recoup any of it. It's got to be a business. Don Bluth
pouring rays common
The common right is nothing more or less than the protection of all, pouring its rays on each. This protection of each by all, is Fraternity. Albert Pike
pouring receiving discouragement
Every minister, lecturer and public speaker know the discouragement of pouring himself of herself out to an audience and not receiving a single ripple of appreciative comment. Dale Carnegie
pouring
He was wailing and snot was just pouring out of his nose. Ann Powers
pouring rains
When it rains it pours, and its pouring here right now.
pouring spirit language
Poetry is of so subtle a spirit, that in the pouring out of one language into another it will evaporate. John Denham
pouring
Angel-duck, angel-duck, winged and silly, / Pouring a watering-pot over a lily. Charles Lamb
pouring like-you guts
I'm pouring my guts out so they can feel like your guts at the same time. Wayne Coyne
mixtures schwarzenegger
My English is a mixture between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Archbishop Tutu. Billy Wilder
mixtures desks terrible
I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous. Elizabeth Hurley
mixtures recipes affection
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection. Arthur Helps
mixtures language statements
Language is a mixture of statement and evocation. Elizabeth Bowen
mixtures gasoline fierce
I am now standing in a mixture of cooling fluid, gasoline, and cola. Adam Savage
mixtures weakness strength-and-weakness
I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness. Annie Besant
mixtures able journalism
poetry has been able to function quite directly as human interpretation of the raw, loose universe. It is a mixture, if you will, of journalism and metaphysics, or of science and religion. Annie Dillard
mixtures my-family enjoyment
My family is a part of my life and everything is all a mixture of enjoyment. Davy Jones
mixtures facts defining
No one should feel at all offended or threatened by the obvious fact that we are not all born entirely blank, or entirely the same, in our mixture of the broad behavioral propensities defining what we call "temperament. Stephen Jay Gould