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fall rain wind
External heat and cold had little influence on Scrooge. No warmth could warm, no wintry weather chill him. No wind that blew was bitterer than he, no falling snow was more intent upon its purpose, no pelting rain less open to entreaty. Charles Dickens
fall mind excess
Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.
fall vanity world
He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble. Charles Caleb Colton
fall velocity vacuums
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.
fall errors giving
Power. like the diamond, dazzles the beholder, and also the wearer; it dignifies meanness; it magnifies littleness; to what is contemptible, it gives authority; to what is low, exaltation. To acquire it, appears not more difficult than to be dispossessed of it when acquired, since it enables the holder to shift his own errors on dependents, and to take their merits to himself. But the miracle of losing it vanishes, when we reflect that we are as liable to fall as to rise, by the treachery of others; and that to say "I am" is language that has been appropriated exclusively to God!
fall giving wife
There is no quality of the mind, or of the body, that so instantaneously and irresistibly captivates, as wit. An elegant writer has observed that wit may do very well for a mistress, but that he should prefer reason for a wife. He that deserts the latter, and gives himself up entirely to the guidance of the former, will certainly fall into many pitfalls and quagmires, like him who walks by flashes of lightning, rather than the steady beams of the sun.
fall errors common
Let us not be too prodigal when we are young, nor too parsimonious when we are old. Otherwise we shall fall into the common error of those, who, when they had the power to enjoy, had not the prudence to acquire; and when they had the prudence to acquire, had no longer the power to enjoy.
fall passion world
You fear the world too much,' she answered gently. 'All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off, one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?
fall scary house
Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow.
hands feelings excess
The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.
hands class two
Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.
hands sorrow tears
If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!
hands feet office
Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
hands library grew
I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries. Charles Stross
hands soul half
I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Charles Spurgeon
hands despair rope
Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.
hands soap calling
There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.
hands ignorant used
And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords Alan Watts
masters worst
put on the livery of the best master only to serve the worst.
masters source phenomenon
Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon. Aiden Wilson Tozer
masters universe
Fast isn't turning us into Masters of the Universe, It's turning us into Cheech and Chong. Carl Honore
masters theory mathematical
We do not master a scientific theory until we have shelled and completely prised free its mathematical kernel. David Hilbert
masters power-of-thought regions
The power of thought, the vast regions it can master. Bertrand Russell
masters zen-master fangs
What are you, Zen Master Fang? Charlaine Harris
masters method
Methods are the masters of masters. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
masters oaks
I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks. Bernard of Clairvaux
masters inaccessible
Mozart is the most inaccessible of the great masters. Artur Schnabel
sinking seems
History is sinking and only a very few seem dimly aware that things are getting bad. Bret Easton Ellis
sink tv
They don't tell you how to be on TV - they put the camera on you, and they turn it on, and you sink or swim. Michael Strahan
sink slow starting
It was sentimental and exciting. It was starting to sink in. I wanted to slow things down a bit. J. Taylor
sink
I mean, it won't really sink in for a while. Jordan Foreman
sinking hard-days pillow
There's nothing better than sinking into my feather pillows after a hard day's work. Kirsten Prout
sinking-feeling doors missing
It was not miserable - often I did not miss her at all. But there was sometimes a quick, sinking ache when I walked in the door and saw she was not there. Twice, however, I'd felt the same sinking feeling when she was. Lorrie Moore
sinking-feeling feelings would-be
Only one thing bothered me: at this very moment, as they say, of inexplicable bliss there would be a sinking feeling at the pit of my stomach and my abdomen would be assailed by a melancholy, cold shivering. In the end I couldn't abide such happiness and ran away. Ivan Turgenev
sinking depends nothingness
Everything depends on this: a fathomless sinking into a fathomless nothingness. Johannes Tauler
sinking-feeling feelings difficult
I experienced that sinking feeling you get when you know you have conned yourself into doing something difficult and there's no going back. Robyn Davidson
splits fractions
Images split the truth in fractions. Denise Levertov
splits able comedy
Comedy is the most difficult. Comic timing is something which you either have it in you, or you don't. You have to have a good sense of humour to be able to understand it. A split second can make you lose the punch. Deepika Padukone
splits moments composition
You cannot separate the composition from the life of the moment. It is all one thing, to be decided in a split second while you're living through it. Edwin Land
splits take-control hardest
The hardest thing about being productive is not the work, but the split second it takes to decide to take control. David Allen
splits way band
The band never actually split up - we just stopped speaking to each other and went our own separate ways. Boy George
split
Old school, split the house... It was cool. Jay Wright
splits way sides
it was like any other relationship, there was jealousy on both sides, there were split-ups and reconciliations. there were also fragmented moments of great peace and beauty. I often tried to get away from her and she tied to get away from me but it was difficult: Cupid, in his strange way, was really there. Charles Bukowski
split together trying
We're not trying to split anything up. They're not together right now." ()
splitting
I choose to love this time for once with all my intelligence -from "Splittings Adrienne Rich