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essence generosity selfishness
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing. Charles Caleb Colton
essence ideas mind
We must suit the flattery to the mind and taste of the recipient. We do not put essences into hogsheads, nor porter into phials. Delicate minds may be disgusted by compliments that would please a grosser intellect; as some fine ladies who would be shocked at the idea of a dram will not refuse a liqueur. Charles Caleb Colton
essence news world
The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news. Charles Spurgeon
essence life material source truth worth
The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth. Ang Lee
essence civilization tribes
... poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization -- carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language ... Diane Wakoski
essence history mind
History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation. Catherine Drinker Bowen
essence simplicity taste
Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste. Cary Grant
essence prejudice symptoms
Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love? Jane Austen
essence perspective loses
What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music. Janis Joplin
deep-thought disease saws
I am not superstitious, but the first time I saw this medal, bearing the venerated likeness of John Calvin, I kissed it, imagining that no one saw the action. I was very greatly surprised when I received this magnificent present, which shall be passed round for your inspection. On the one side is John Calvin with his visage worn by disease and deep thought, and on the other side is a verse fully applicable to him: 'He endured, as seeing Him who is invisible. Charles Spurgeon
deep-thought done stuff
All these stuff she's done before - the rosary, the deep thoughts, the faux British accent. It's the same thing over and over. She's be so much better if she just retired, and I like Madonna. Andrea Tantaros
deep-thought doe language
Language buries, but does not resurrect. John Green
deep-thought life-is
Life is in ourselves and not in the external. Fyodor Dostoevsky
deep-thought shelter earth
If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground. Fyodor Dostoevsky
deep-thought chaos destruction
Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time. Fyodor Dostoevsky
deep-thought world save-the-world
Beauty would save the world. Fyodor Dostoevsky
deep-thought brothers-karamazov ifs
If there were no God, he would have to be invented. Fyodor Dostoevsky
deep-thought looks abyss
When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you. Friedrich Nietzsche
transcendentalism enjoy knows
We do not enjoy poetry unless we know it to be poetry. Henry David Thoreau
transcendentalism saddles mankind
Things are in the saddle. And ride mankind. Ralph Waldo Emerson