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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.
fear inspire paradox
There is this paradox in fear: he is most likely to inspire it in others who has none himself!
fear fields abundance
The interests of society often render it expedient not to utter the whole truth, the interests of science never: for in this field we have much more to fear from the deficiency of truth than from its abundance.
fear despise
We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
fear-god
He who fears God has nothing else to fear. Charles Spurgeon
fear belief power-of-love
It is my belief that the only power which can resist the power of fear is the power of love. Alan Paton
fearless church needs
A scared world needs a fearless church. Aiden Wilson Tozer
fear practice people
We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of people. A lot of people turn to something that they hope will liberate them without their having to face themselves. That is impossible. We can't do that. We have to be honest with ourselves. We have to see our gut, our excrement, our most undesirable parts. We have to see them. That is the foundation of warriorship, basically speaking. Whatever is there, we have to face it, we have to look at it, study it, work with it and practice meditation with it. Chogyam Trungpa
fear frightened bodhisattva
Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.
fear spite
In spite of your fear, do what you have to do. Chin-Ning Chu
future men intellectual
If that marvellous microcosm, man, with all the costly cargo of his faculties and powers, were indeed a rich argosy, fitted out and freighted only for shipwreck and destruction, who amongst us that tolerate the present only from the hope of the future, who that have any aspirings of a high and intellectual nature about them, could be brought to submit to the disgusting mortifications of the voyage?
future ruins today
Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow. Charles Simmons
future ocean games
What we see as death, empty space, or nothingness is only the trough between the crests of this endlessly waving ocean. It is all part of the illusion that there should seem to be something to be gained in the future, and that there is an urgent necessity to go on and on until we get it. Yet just as there is no time but the present, and no one except the all-and-everything, there is never anything to be gained—though the zest of the game is to pretend that there is. Alan Watts
future worry progress
Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.
future judgment premonition
Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day. Al Stewart
future animal trying
Humans are the only animals that try to dwell in the future. You don't have to purely live in the present situation without a plan, but the future plans you make can only be based on the aspects of the future that manifest within the present situation.
future mean two
You can't see the future, there's no such thing. It's all bets. You'll never get the same answer from two seers. But that doesn't mean either of them's wrong. China Mieville
future vision get-better
...the science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better David Miliband
future looks care
In my brief glimpse of what is to come I realize how little I care to witness it. I have seen the future and I'm fairly relieved to say, it looks nothing like me. David Rakoff
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.
great-expectations strange melancholy
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
great-expectations may done
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
great-expectations may let-me
Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things.
insecurity trying results
Insecurity is the result of trying to be secure.
insecurity i-can conscience
I can't tell my conscience from my insecurities. Cathy Guisewite
insecurity mask superiority
Cool superiority as a mask for overflowing insecurity. Deb Caletti
insecurity littles values
Somethings wrong with us for us to value ourselves so little. Beth Moore
insecurity needs lines
Insecurity is miserable. That's the bottom line. We don't need it. We don't want it. And we really can live without it. So what would happen if we quite being accomplices in our own misery?
insecurity body stills
I had body insecurities when I was younger. I still do. Ariel Winter
insecurity matter emotion
I don't let anyone's insecurities, emotions, or opinions bother me. I know that if I am happy, that's all that matters to me. Demi Lovato
insecurity waste wasting-time
Insecurity is a waste of time. Diane von Furstenberg
insecurity trying pins
Insecurities are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade. Brandon Boyd
readers
The Web critic relies on his or her readers for attentiveness and approval. Lee Siegel
readers
I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about. Christina Baker Kline
readers whether
I like the idea of readers feeling a familiarity, whether it's with Africa or childhood. Binyavanga Wainaina
readers
Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it. Khaled Hosseini
readers suffer writers
There is a whole generation of romance readers and writers who suffer from what I like to think of as 'Thorn Birds' Fever. Sarah MacLean
readers
Just tell your readers they can come down and see anything and it should be good,
readers running
We can communicate to our readers what this is about without running it.
readers
Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.
readers reluctant
There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh. Barbara Park
setting work
When I work on a novel, I usually have one character and a setting in mind. Kevin Henkes
setting various
There are various interpretations of the new law. It is setting us back.
setting whatever whether
She's our unquestioned leader. She does so much, whatever we need, whether it's points, rebounds, assists, setting up plays. She does it all. Mike Harris
setting unable women
In the Sixties, fashion was about liberation. It was about setting women free; it wasn't about being unable to walk. Veruschka von Lehndorff
setting
I don't think it's so much of a disadvantage setting up from scratch.
setting
I have begun, with my colleagues, setting up a new party, Ariel Sharon
setting team win
I'd been setting up my team all night, ... I'm going to win the game. That's what I do. . . . They didn't say it was going to be easy. Gilbert Arenas
setting
We've got the possibility of setting things right, Ruby Dee
setting talking teenagers
We've got two teenagers we're talking to right now, and one of them has confessed to setting the fire.
verge all-things all-things-new
We're on the verge of all things new. Billy Joel
verge
Why are you always on the verge of goodbye, before I'll show you how I really feel inside. Jason Aldean
verge
As you know, we are on the verge of resting, but I think we are going to have to re-evaluate that. Johnnie Cochran
verge
Right now, we're on the verge of something pretty special. Reggie Theus
verge
We were on the verge of greatness. This has set us back 70 years.