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british-statesman business found great guiding himself learning man
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. John Morley
british-statesman general improvement mankind supposed taking
They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular. John Morley
british-statesman cause evolution force
Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law. John Morley
british-statesman great life ought
A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation. John Morley
british-statesman cannot emotions
You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration. John Morley
british-statesman duty examine laws religion sure worship
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat. John Morley
british-statesman good hold unless
Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way. John Morley
british-statesman brought good proverb
A proverb is good sense brought to a point. John Morley
british-statesman literature
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions. John Morley
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Dickens
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. Charles Dickens
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. Charles Dickens
learned
We all learned how to walk and talk by interacting with our environment, with real goals and rewards. Nicholas Negroponte
learned life whenever
Whenever the heat's on, my whole life, I've just kind of learned to focus a little more. Jordan Spieth
learned past save
We've been able to put those things we've learned in the past in place and save many more structures, Michael Brown
learned next playoffs prouder takes team valuable win
We're a young team and I think we learned a valuable lesson. And we'll know what it takes to win in the playoffs next year. I couldn't be prouder of the guys. Dave Nutting
learned lovely people
Through all of this lovely interviewing, and nice things people say, and the rest of it, I have learned that I am an actor. That is my profession. That is my job. That is how I make a living. So I am just out there making a living. Melissa Leo
learned
We're just going to get better. We learned a lot as a team, and I know I learned a lot as a player. Now, we have to take what we've learned and get better. Courtney Beasley
learned life might
If there's one thing I've learned in my life, it's that curiosity might kill cats, but it doesn't kill people. Tracy Morgan
learned mean middle people realize seconds six
I just use all the skills that I learned in film school, and I just incorporate them into my sketches. People don't realize that, with a story, there has to be a beginning, middle and end. There has to be a problem and a resolution. Just because it's six seconds doesn't mean it's not a story. King Bach
learned life
From my old neighborhood, I learned nothing was guaranteed, not even life itself. You better get it today, because tomorrow is not promised. Junior Seau
learning enemy safe
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends. Charles Caleb Colton
learning ignorance knowledge
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it. Alan Watts
learning evolution programming
Optimization hinders evolution. Alan Perlis
learning nouns programming
Any noun can be verbed. Alan Perlis
learning thinking language
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming. Alan Perlis
learning thinking knowing
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. Alan Perlis
learning machines program
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program. Alan Perlis
learning
I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums. Nolan Sotillo
learning thinking brain
I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active. Beverley Mitchell
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander. Charles Caleb Colton
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude. Charles Dickens
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable. Charles Dickens
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness. Charles Dickens
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything. Charles Dickens
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. Charles Dickens
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon. Charles Dickens
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own Charles Dickens
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule
pockets painful deny
Tis unpleasant to meet a beggar. It is painful to deny him; and, if you relieve him, it is so much out of your pocket. Charles Lamb
pockets useful
Macklin is as useful as pockets in your underpants. Mark Latham
pockets feels
Feel for others - in your pocket Charles Spurgeon
pockets framed should
Gave her love away, put it in my pocket when it should of been framed! Eddie Vedder
pocketbooks property
Portable property is happiness in a pocketbook. Jane Austen
pocket
I kind of keep my personality in my pocket a lot. When I start to do stand-up, that's not my true personality either. It's the personality of a guy who hasn't been able to say what he wanted to say. Chris Rock
pockets may frogs
They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a handgun. Dan Rather
pockets
I carried $5000 when I went to Washington. I returned with barely $90 in our pockets. Andrew Jackson
pockets school vote
If they want to get into the pockets of this school district, I am not going to vote for it. J. Horton
pulling starters though
We started pulling some of the starters even though it was only 2-0 but you have to look at the big picture. Kenny Graham
pulls
When you think something can't be done, that's when he pulls off another stunt. Vince Carter
pulling-away natural polls
New polls show that Obama is now pulling away from Mitt Romney. And, of course, what could be more natural than to see Mitt Romney and pull away? Bill Maher
pull rain tractor
When we get real rain I'll have to get a tractor and pull them out of the mud. Greg Williams
pull
We're going to have to pull up our bootstraps. Wayne Morgan
pull sometime until win
We're doing better than I was hoping. I didn't think we'd be able to pull off a win until sometime around March. Nick Rodriguez
pulling sweet sympathize tea
We know what they're going through. We sympathize with them. We're still Southerners and we're still pulling together. It's all sweet tea and casseroles. John W. Thompson
pulling sweet sympathize tea
We know what they're going through. We sympathize with them, ... We're still Southerners and we're still pulling together. It's all sweet tea and casseroles. John Thompson
pull
Sometimes my husband has to literally pull me away from the computer. Sherri Shepherd
seems interfere
Work doesn't seem to interfere with my life. I have time for everything, even time to be alone. Carolina Herrera
seems situation stop trying
We're in a situation where we just can't stop the bleeding. We keep trying to put band-aids on the wound, but nothing seems to help. John Sacchi
seems work
When you stop thinking about something, the idea comes to you. It seems to work. Jim Rash
seems
We're going to do what we've been doing all year. It seems to be working fine. Nicole Piggott
seems commonplace
Anything seems commonplace, once explained. Arthur Conan Doyle
seem
We're getting better. We just can't seem to get over the hump. Larry Mikesell
seem time
We haven't had crime writers, and for a long time in the Republic, we didn't seem to have a crime problem as such. Ken Bruen
seemed tries whereas work
Ulster seemed to get their tries effortlessly whereas we had to work for ours. Todd Blackadder
seems
I do feel as if... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts. Kate Grenville
time son boys
A boy's story is the best that is ever told. Charles Dickens
time fool calendars
Tomorrow! It is a period nowhere to be found in all the registers of time, unless, perchance, in the fool's calendar. Charles Caleb Colton
time all-things
Time is the measurer of all things, but is itself immeasurable, and the grand discloser of all things, but is itself undisclosed. Charles Caleb Colton
time retreat tides
Time ... advances like the slowest tide, but retreats like the swiftest torrent. Charles Caleb Colton
time two black
Time,- that black and narrow isthmus between two eternities. Charles Caleb Colton
time looks one-thing
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another. Charles Caleb Colton
time world overcoming
Time is the most subtle yet the most insatiable of depredators, and by appearing to take nothing is permitted to take all; nor can it be satisfied until it has stolen the world from us, and us from the world. It constantly flies, yet overcomes all things by flight; and although it is the present ally, it will be the future conqueror of death. Charles Caleb Colton
time journey men
Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away. Charles Caleb Colton
time opportunity enemy
Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends. Charles Caleb Colton
watches nightmare film
It's a nightmare to sit and watch a film that I'm in. There's a horrible inescapability to it. Alan Rickman
watches culture ugh
I am so spoiled. I cannot watch a show where it gets interrupted for ads. I have to TiVo it and skip through the ads, because the culture of advertising is so false and phony that I just... ugh, you know? Alan Ball
watches looks like-you
How galling to watch someone who looks like you, who basically is you, do all the shagging you didn't get to do. David Tennant
watches hours skates
I could sit here in the tribunes and watch Michelle Kwan skate for hours... Carolina Kostner
watches instinct impress
When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me. Charles Lindbergh
watches lord caught
We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him. Aiden Wilson Tozer
watches disaster conversation
You don't have conversations with microprocessors. You tell them what to do, then helplessly watch the disaster when they take you literally! David Brin
watches trailers
I don't watch trailers, I like to go into every movie fresh. Benh Zeitlin
watches world
I have learnt how to live…how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch. Audrey Hepburn
wearing-black obsessive-compulsive woven
I'm wearing black leggings and a loose top festooned with a Menger sponge of empty pockets stitched out of smaller pockets and smaller still, almost down to the limits of visibility woven in freefall by hordes of tiny otaku spiders, I'm told, their genes programmed by an obsessive-compulsive sartorial topologist. Charles Stross
wear
My friends used to tease me 'cause I'd wear a CamelBak while I was working so I wouldn't have to get up if I was thirsty. Nick Woodman
wearing-black bracelet instance
If you see me, I'm always wearing black and pink. If I don't have it on, I at least have something that's black and pink. For instance, like, a bracelet or something. Diana DeGarmo
wearing
When you're wearing something you feel comfortable in, you move better. That's why the most important accessory you can have is a full-length mirror. Carolina Herrera
wear women
I like women with style to wear my shoes. Manolo Blahnik
wearing
I'm kind of obsessed with wedges, but I go to a regular high school, so I'm not going to be wearing Vera Wang there. Laura Marano
wearing-black black colour
When I find a colour darker than black, I'll wear it. But until then, I'm wearing black! Coco Chanel
wearing
She was wearing her seatbelt but it wouldn't have made any difference, ... She was killed instantly. Scott Peterson
wears younger
I think I had a mild case of Asperger's as a younger guy, but that typically just wears off after a while. David Byrne