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effort excellence melancholy
There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts. Charles Caleb Colton
effort littles cost
Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not. Charles Dickens
effort use talent
The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents. Charles Spurgeon
effort break breakdown
There hasn't been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres. They're not into dicing and slicing everything up. Alan Bishop
effort goes-on found
All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on. Alan Bennett
effort focus mind
If you want to build a brand, you must focus your branding efforts on owning a word in the prospect's mind. A word that nobody else owns. Al Ries
effort peaceful succeed
If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor. Akio Morita
effort done lord
In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work. Aiden Wilson Tozer
effort exhibitions shows
These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are. Childe Hassam
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.
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.
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.
forth garage hoping likely possibly sitting
We're hoping that someone would come forth with info about this. We think that it could be possibly sitting in someone's garage and someone is likely to know about that.
forth science sent
When science has sent forth her fiat - it is only to hear and obey. Jules Verne
forth input mode output phases soak trying
I go back and forth between input phases where I'm reading a lot or trying to get out and explore the world a bit and soak up inspirations and then I'll get back into output mode and write and write and write. Erin Morgenstern
forthright reluctant similar
We have similar backgrounds in many instances, ... We have never been reluctant to take on the Establishment, so to speak, and we've been forthright in our objections to the so-called 'Good Ole Boy' network.
forth inner light perhaps shine someday
Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we'll need no other light Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
forth simon
Simon and I go back and forth with each other, but it's in a different way. Ryan Seacrest
forth history represents sisters tradition
She represents the history and tradition set forth by the Sisters of Mercy.
forth lead races watching
Mimi's races were great. Watching her go back and forth in the lead was exciting.
forth games
So it went back and forth to see what could be done. The Alamodome has some restrictions on what games could be here. LSU had restrictions, too. So it was a lot of conversations about different games. Tom Benson
girls lose outcome rather tend
The outcome may not have been the best, but our girls tend to think it's better to lose by 30, rather than to lose by one.
girls
There are certainly a billion, ker-trillion girls out there more attractive than I am. Marcia Gay Harden
girls jelly life shoes understand
I really don't understand jelly shoes - those see-through, glittery, sandal-type things that girls wear. I cannot, for the life of me, understand why they were ever popular. Hayley Orrantia
girls last nervous playing rather relax thinking win
We have to go out now and win our last two games. I think our girls are playing a little nervous the last two games. We just have to go out and relax and play basketball. We're thinking too much rather than just playing.
girls punishment running school season watching worked worse
We were at our own school and watching all these other girls play for something that we had worked all season long for. That was a worse punishment than any kind of running or conditioning.
girls knew step stop
We were too one-dimensional. They knew to stop Karen and Katie, and they got their points, but the other girls need to step up.
girls half life models
There are so many beautiful girls who aren't photogenic. In real life, half the models you see look really hideous.
girls midway season starting work
We're midway through the season now and I think the girls are starting to progress. We've got a lot more work to do, but I think that we're going in the right direction.
girls minimize number post throw
We're going to throw a number of girls on her. You have to post up on the elbow, not down on the block. If we can minimize her and their 3-point shooters, we have shot.
winter darkness scrooge
Darkness is cheap, and Scrooge liked it.
winter age lapland
Cheerfulness ought to be the viaticum vitae of their life to the old; age without cheerfulness is a Lapland winter without a sun.
winning race looks
If we look backwards to antiquity it should be as those that are winning a race.
wine order water
In order to try whether a vessel be leaky, we first prove it with water before we trust it with wine.
wings gone originality
All the poets are indebted more or less to those who have gone before them; even Homer's originality has been questioned, and Virgil owes almost as much to Theocritus, in his Pastorals, as to Homer, in his Heroics; and if our own countryman, Milton, has soared above both Homer and Virgil, it is because he has stolen some feathers from their wings.
wind literature wave
Commerce flourishes by circumstances, precarious, transitory, contingent, almost as the winds and waves that bring it to our shores.
wind fire tale-of-two-cities
Then tell Wind and Fire where to stop," returned madame; "but don't tell me.
winning race obstacles
Ride on! Ride on over all obstacles and win the race.
wine paris six
Along the Paris streets, the death-carts rumble, hollow and harsh. Six tumbrils carry the day's wine to La Guillotine.