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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.
fool guides
He who is his own guide is guided by a fool. Charles Spurgeon
fool cry-the-beloved-country quiet
Nothing is ever quiet, except for fools. Alan Paton
fool
And thus love makes fools of us all. Chris Cleave
foolish young impress
Power always impresses the young and foolish. Darren Shan
fool peculiar bad-mood
That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true. David D. Burns
fool emotion aim
My aim was not to fool. My aim was to provoke thought and stir emotion. Casey Affleck
fool
Wishers were ever fools. William Shakespeare
fool slave life-time
But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool.
fool slander rail
There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail.
fools-and-foolishness good mix silly
Mix a little foolishness with your prudence: it's good to be silly at the right moment. (Odes, bk. 4, no. 12, l. 27) Horace
fools-and-foolishness lovely mix moment serious silly
Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment
fools-and-foolishness four pride taxed taxes-and-taxation three twice
We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our foolishness. Benjamin Franklin
fools-and-foolishness money
A fool and his money are soon parted. Thomas Tusser
fools-and-foolishness metals pocket precious uses
RHADOMANCER, n. One who uses a divining-rod in prospecting for precious metals in the pocket of a fool.
fools-and-foolishness life slave survey takes
But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool;And time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop.
fools-and-foolishness minutes takes twenty
It takes a woman twenty years to make a man of her son, and another woman twenty minutes to make a fool of him. Helen Rowland
fools-and-foolishness judges maketh
He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.
fools-and-foolishness high keeps pay people reasons until
There are reasons why people pay for high growth, and they typically overpay. It's a fool's game, and it keeps going until it doesn't keep going.
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.
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude.
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.
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.
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.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
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.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
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
shame produce trauma
Shame produces trauma. Trauma produces paralysis. bell hooks
shame gremlins daring-greatly
Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.
shame test
Shame, shame on America. We were put to the test and we have failed. Diane Watson
shame hungry share
There is no shame in being hungry for another person. There is no shame in wanting very much to share your life with somebody. Augusten Burroughs
shame
I feel like it's a real shame that my generation doesn't make an appearance at the opera. James Gray
shame
There is no shame in preferring happiness. Albert Camus
shame
I don't have any shame. Conrad Black
shame share easier
Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with. Craig Thompson
shame impulse
There is no shame in impulse. Douglas Coupland