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friendship wine flames
Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine. Charles Dickens
friendship christmas new-year
Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all. Charles Dickens
friendship relationship goodbye
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. Charles Dickens
friendship adversity flames
The firmest of friendships have been formed in mutual adversity, as iron is most strongly united by the fiercest flame. Charles Caleb Colton
friendship adversity ties
Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity. Charles Caleb Colton
friends true-friend book
Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us - never cease to instruct - never cloy. Charles Caleb Colton
friendship said my-friends
"Do not repine, my friends," said Mr. Pecksniff, tenderly. "Do not weep for me. It is chronic." Charles Dickens
friends wise mean
In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might say, well does that mean that you should never have a lost person as your friend? No, I wouldn't say that. But you can't have the same intimacy with a lost person that you can with a godly person in whom the Holy Spirit is living. Charles Stanley
friendship illusion invisible
These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends. Alanis Morissette
art children natural
Be natural my children. For the writer that is natural has fulfilled all the rules of art. Charles Dickens
art block food
To see the butcher slap the steak before he laid it on the block, and give his knife a sharpening, was to forget breakfast instantly. It was agreeable too - it really was - to see him cut it off so smooth and juicy. There was nothing savage in the act, although the knife was large and keen; it was a piece of art, high art; there was delicacy of touch, clearness of tone, skilful handling of the subject, fine shading. It was the triumph of mind over matter; quite. Charles Dickens
art school speech
Eloquence is the language of nature, and cannot be learned in the schools; but rhetoric is the creature of art, which he who feels least will most excel in. Charles Caleb Colton
art people dirt
Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion. Charles Dickens
art philosophy ideas
We all draw a little and compose a little, and none of us have any idea of time or money. Charles Dickens
art prayer hate
Beware, I pray thee, of presuming that thou art saved. If thy heart be renewed, if thou shalt hate the things that thou didst once love, and love the things that thou didst once hate; if thou hast really repented; if there be a thorough change of mind in thee; if thou be born again, then hast thou reason to rejoice: but if there be no vital change, no inward godliness; if there be no love to God, no prayer, no work of the Holy Spirit, then thy saying "I am saved" is but thine own assertion, and it may delude, but it will not deliver thee. Charles Spurgeon
art children crowns
Alas, if our children lose the crown of life, it will be but a small consolation that they have won the laurels of literature or art. Charles Spurgeon
art doubt whispering
Come boldly, 'O believer, for despite the whisperings of Satan and the doubtings of thine own heart, thou art greatly beloved. Charles Spurgeon
art honesty believe
I firmly believe that the only reason why I'm on this planet, the only reason why I live, breathe, and exist is, that it's my duty to be as honest as possible in my art. Alanis Morissette
war ambition mean
For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few. Charles Caleb Colton
war winning games
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never. Charles Caleb Colton
war hands fog
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body. Charles Caleb Colton
war writing fighting
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it. Charles Caleb Colton
war long body
Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution. Charles Caleb Colton
war heart character
Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart? Charles Dickens
war believe blow
I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth. Charles Dickens
war believe writing
There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet? Charles Stross
war writing spy
I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing. Charles Stross