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country easy walks
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. Charles Dickens
country men climate
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least. Charles Caleb Colton
country travel home
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds. Charles Caleb Colton
country sadness men
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes. Charles Caleb Colton
country heart simple
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same. Charles Caleb Colton
country self names
The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals. Charles Caleb Colton
country mean hands
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail. Charles Dickens
country night men
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe. Charles Dickens
country character men
Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country. Charles Dickens
extravagance certain harbour
Vigorous societies harbour a certain extravagance of objectives. Alfred North Whitehead
extravagance extravagant
The most extravagant thing I've ever bought is 95 tops all the same. Chris Martin
extravagance poverty poor
Poverty is not dishonorable in itself, but only when it comes from idleness, intemperance, extravagance, and folly. Plutarch
extravagance poor console
The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance. Oscar Wilde
extravagance
Beauty is not extravagance; beauty is life. Imelda Marcos
extravagance way subtle
Archetypes are universal, and, in subtle or extravagant ways, interchangeable. Tanith Lee
extravagance income cascade
A large retinue upon a small income, like a large cascade upon a small stream, tends to discover its tenuity. William Shenstone
extravagance too-much details
Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar. Willa Cather
extravagance greedy extravagant
Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own Sallust
substance belief behavior
Behavior is the substance of religion. Belief is the substance of relationship. Charles Stanley
substance english-words culture
Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me Chow Yun-Fat
substance obsessed fats
This is true; virtually all edible substances, and many automotive products, are now marketed as being low-fat or fat-free. Americans are obsessed with fat content. Dave Barry
substance literature lilies
Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one. Edith Wharton
substance degradation recycling
In nature, no organic substance is synthesized unless there is provision for its degradation; recycling is enforced. Barry Commoner
substance source concerned
We are authors, all of us, concerned with beginning, with making, with sources and substance. Diane Wakoski
substance matter cabinets
Disputing the commonsense notion that all events require the prior existence of some underlying matter or substance. There is no antecedent static cabinet. Alfred North Whitehead
substance mathematics mathematical
Before you generalize, formalize, and axiomatize there must be mathematical substance. Hermann Weyl
substance way hinduism
Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere. Mahatma Gandhi