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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.
cat animal humanity
What greater gift than the love of a cat.
cat men light
There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs.
cat swings rooms
There wasn't room to swing a cat there.
cat boots milk
Should ever anything be missed - milk, coals, umbrellas, brandy - the cat's pitched into with a boot or anything that's handy. Charles Stuart Calverley
cat violin scraping
Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat's entrails with horsehair. Alan Watts
cat animal names
Cats names are more for human benefit. They give one a certain degree more confidence that the animal belongs to you. Alan Ayckbourn
catholic too-much belief
I was brought up as a Catholic, and I'm no longer a Catholic. I don't talk about my beliefs too much in public probably because I feel very strongly that it's something personal - more than personal, it's private. Alan Alda
catholic doe shapes
I used to be a Catholic. I left because I object to conversion by concussion. If you don't agree with what they teach, you get clobbered over the head until you do. All that does is change the shape of the head.
cat herding-cats democrat
Getting Democrats organized is like herding cats. Al Sharpton
broken tragedy cry-the-beloved-country
The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that things are not mended again. Alan Paton
broken-heart sick broken-promises
It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises. Chief Joseph
broken people stories
Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
broken people empowering
Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign. But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people. But stories can also repair that broken dignity.
broken healthy
The healthy can't understand the emptied, the broken. David Mitchell
broken unity important
For me it's really important that the work here displays an aesthetic of decay along with the sunken boat with the broken ceramic pieces. They form a unity in showing the power of destruction, the beauty of destruction, whether it's from nature- because the boat has sunk- or through other forces. It's really the beauty of decay and death that holds a power here. Cai Guo-Qiang
broken-heart government broken-promises
Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government. Buffalo Bill
broken looks imagine
Imagine what your life will look like when you have broken the bondage of fear. Bruce Wilkinson
broken bird too-late
Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late. Bryan Davis