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wind roots tree
Rochester: "I am no better than the old lightning-struck chestnut-tree in Thornfield orchard…And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?" Jane: "You are no ruin sir - no lighting-struck tree: you are green and vigorous. Plants will grow about your roots, whether you ask them or not, because they take delight in your bountiful shadow; and as they grow they will lean towards you, and wind round you, because your strength offers them so safe a prop. Charlotte Bronte
wind literature wave
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores. Charles Caleb Colton
wind fire tale-of-two-cities
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me. Charles Dickens
wind rising sawdust
It had grown darker as they talked, and the wind was sawing and the sawdust was whirling outside paler windows. The underlying churchyard was already settling into deep dim shade, and the shade was creeping up to the housetops among which they sat. "As if," said Eugene, "as if the churchyard ghosts were rising."
wind east now-and-then
The wind's in the east. . . . I am always conscious of an uncomfortable sensation now and then when the wind is blowing in the east.
wind darkness woods
I kept staring into the blackness of the woods, drawn into the darkness as I always had been. I suddenly realized how alone I was. (But this is how you travel, the wind whispered back, this is how you've always lived.) Bret Easton Ellis
wind skins mortality
We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality. Djuna Barnes
wind hair passionate
I want to live a passionate life. I always want to feel the wind in my hair. Dave Gorman
window tapping
Someone was tapping on the window. Dave Barry
calumny-is watches action
I am beholden to calumny, that she hath so endeavored to belie me.-It shall make me set a surer guard on myself, and keep a better watch upon my actions. Ben Jonson
calumny-is ice giving
If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny. William Shakespeare
calumny-is noise calumny
Calumny is only the noise of madmen. Diogenes
calumny-is calumny
Nothing is so swift as calumny, nothing is more easily propagated, nothing more readily credited, nothing more widely circulated. Marcus Tullius Cicero
calumny-is worry trying
Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever. Nicolas Chamfort
calumny-is gullibility knows
Our credulity is greatest concerning the things we know least about. Eric Hoffer
calumny
The best calumnies are spiced with truth. George R. R. Martin
calumny-is innocence calumny
There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage. Horace
calumny-is sticks calumny
Calumniate, calumniate; there will always be something which sticks. Pierre Beaumarchais
slander concern angry
Where it concerns himself, Who's angry at a slander, makes it true.
slander possession succession
Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession.
slander
Slander is the balm of malignity.
slander solace
Slander is the solace of malignity. Joseph Joubert
slander spoken three
Slander slays three persons: the speaker, the spoken to, and the spoken of Hebrew Proverb