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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.
arrows may fancy
If ever (as that ever may be near) you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, then shall you know the wounds invisible that love's keen, arrows make. William Shakespeare
arrows invisible cupid
The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make.
arrows
Im about as straight an arrow as youll find out there. Deborah Norville
arrows mind resistance
Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find. Edmund Waller
arrows flying listening
The aim of talk should be like the aim of a flying arrow -- to hit the mark; but to this end there must be a mark to hit, that is, there must be a listener.
arrows physics entropy
So far as physics is concerned, time's arrow is a property of entropy alone. Arthur Eddington
arrows volunteer purpose
As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose.
arrows rats shoot sudan
Let rats shoot arrows at each other. Sudan African-American Proverb
arrows target niche
I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside. Brian Eno
scandal ruins
It's better to live down a scandal than to ruin one's life. Anton Chekhov
scandal machines hostage
Death is a scandal. The machine is functioning, we are all hostages Elias Canetti
scandal brutality moral
The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life. Adam Gopnik
scandal
Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.
scandals
Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers! John Cusack
scandal my-favorite members
My favorite cast member of Scandal is Josh Malina. Darby Stanchfield
scandal corruption mccain
The more there is scandal and corruption in Washington, the better it is for McCain, so he`s at a high point right now. Chuck Todd
scandal particular
No particular scandal one can touch but it confounds the breather.
scandal dies
Scandal dies sooner of itself, than we could kill it. Benjamin Rush