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british-statesman business found great guiding himself learning man
They are the guiding oracles which man has found out for himself in that great business of ours, of learning how to be, to do, to do without, and to depart. John Morley
british-statesman general improvement mankind supposed taking
They act as if they supposed that to be very sanguine about the general improvement of mankind is a virtue that relieves them from taking trouble about any improvement in particular.
british-statesman cause evolution force
Evolution is not a force but a process. Not a cause but a law.
british-statesman great life ought
A great interpreter of life ought not himself to need interpretation.
british-statesman cannot emotions
You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.
british-statesman duty examine laws religion sure worship
Where it is a duty to worship the sun it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat.
british-statesman good hold unless
Even good opinions are worth very little unless we hold them in the broad, intelligent, and spacious way.
british-statesman brought good proverb
A proverb is good sense brought to a point.
british-statesman literature
Literature, the most seductive, the most deceiving, the most dangerous of professions.
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Charles Caleb Colton
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away. Charles Dickens
great-expectations strange melancholy
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
great-expectations may done
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
great-expectations may let-me
Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
himself knew sitting
The person knew where he was sitting and positioned himself perfectly.
himself
Director of any film is very important, and an actor has to leave himself in his hands to mould. Leander Paes
himself hulk inside version
What makes Hulk afraid? It's himself. It's a version of himself that's weak. It's a version of himself that's vulnerable. It's a child inside of him. Mark Ruffalo
himself invested piano since wrote
When you think of Mozart's piano concertos, you think of them as masterpieces. He invested so much in them, since he wrote these for himself to play.
himself late runs strict tight tom turn works
Tom runs a very tight ship. You do not turn up late and you don't muck around - he's strict with himself and everyone he works with. Jonathan Meyers
himself tom took wolf
Tom Ridge is not a candidate, because he took himself out, ... Wolf Blitzer Reports. Dick Cheney
himself shooter turn
We know who the shooter is, ... It would be better for him to turn himself in before we have to find him.
himself liberate pieces writer
The writer is someone who tears himself to pieces in order to liberate his neighbor. Italo Calvino
himself lord
O Nanak, the Lord Himself is the Appraiser, who distinguishes the counterfeit from the genuine.
ivy devil poison
Everywhere the devil spits, poison ivy grows. Alan Chadwick
ivy innuendo
Why so much innuendo, draped like ivy to hide a cesspool, when everyone knew the cesspool was there? Cesare Pavese
ivy long looks
Can you at least tell us what these Sevens look like?" He said "could we pick one out in a crowd?" "A long time ago, they used to appear wearing robes and golden girtles," Ivy explained. "They sound like losers," Xavier muttered. Alexandra Adornetto
ivy kid league smart
He's a smart kid who was recruited by the Ivy League schools. He did pretty well.
ivy proud win
We've got to use this as a springboard for the Ivy championship. I'm real proud of the team. We can win the Ivies.
ivy percent staff together
When I said that I wanted to put together a writing staff that would only be 80 percent Ivy League-educated Jews, they said it couldn't be done, Jon Stewart
ivy league step
The Ivy League is a step up for the most part.
ivy lawns did-you-know
Alexia, did you know there is an entire regiment decamping on your front lawn? Laddy Maccon sighed. "Really, Ivy, I would never have noticed. Gail Carriger
ivy league academia
Academia is a rarified culture, especially an Ivy League academic background. Paul Giamatti
manipulation manipulate
I've never tried to manipulate my image. Alan Alda
management function greater
The smaller the function, the greater the management. C. Northcote Parkinson
man poetry
The poetry was the man, the man was the poetry.
manipulative
I'm not naturally manipulative. Benjamin Netanyahu
mankind historian dependence
What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind? David Hume
managers
I've been told I'm a good midcareer manager. Arne Glimcher
manners cowardice characteristics
Ever the characteristic manners of cowardice. Edward Everett
manhattan
Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends! Ed Koch
management terrorism torture
Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management. Edward Kennedy
merit
Faith is not in itself a meritorious act; the merit is in the One to Whom it is directed. Aiden Wilson Tozer
merit lord devotion
Offspring, friends and relatives flee from a devotee of the Lord: yet those who follow him bring merit to their families through their devotion. Chanakya
merit method should
Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
merit modesty poor-richard
Great Modesty often hides great Merit. Benjamin Franklin
merit affection
The more merit, the less affection. Baltasar Gracian
merit
I've learned to think, I may succeed or fail, but I'm going to do so on the merit of my own instincts. Ben Affleck
merit
Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman. Jean Giraudoux
merits politics prioritize
On my team, we prioritize merits over politics.
merits possessed qualities sublime
May we imbibe all those qualities and sublime merits possessed by gods.
power overcoming cowardice
That cowardice is incorrigible which the love of power cannot overcome.
powerful weak said
The worst thing that can be said of the most powerful is that they can take your life; but the same can be said of the most weak.
power two age
There are three kinds of power,--wealth, strength, and talent; but as old age always weakens, often destroys, the two latter, the aged are induced to cling with the greater avidity to the former.
powerful forgiving easy
It is more easy to forgive the weak who have injured us than the powerful whom we have injured.
powerful heaven goddess
We make a goddess of Fortune ... and place her in the highest heaven. But it is not fortune that is exalted and powerful, but we ourselves that are abject and weak.
powerful heart vanity
Vanity finds in self-love so powerful an ally that it storms, as it were, by a coup de main,, the citadel of our heads, where, having blinded the two watchmen, it readily descends into the heart.
powerful lying believe
One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. And the biggest lie is that there are no consequences to our own doing. Satan will give you whatever you ask for if it will lead you where he ultimately wants you. Charles Stanley
powerful evil spirit
We declare, upon Scriptural authority, that the human will is so desperately set on mischief, so depraved, and so inclined to everything that is evil, and so disinclined to everything that is good, that without the powerful, supernatural, irresistible influence of the Holy Spirit, no human will ever be constrained towards Christ. Charles Spurgeon
powerful church christ
In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.
raises
Smee! Raise the Ladies! Dave Barry
raised rate
This suggests a presumption that the rate (now at 3.75 percent) will need to be raised further, Janet Yellen
raises series sure
When you're working with a series that's as interesting as one about polygamy, you want to make sure it raises people's curiosity.
raise
What happens? We just, in turn, raise our prices.
raise
I live in the country. I'm a bird-watcher, an oyster-raiser. You know, I'll do anything that - raise dogs for the blind as a volunteer. Isabella Rossellini
raise trading
Lucent is trading at around $10 so how in the world are they going to raise capital?
raise stuff work
I always put dance stuff out because you have to work, man. You have to eat. You have to compromise sometimes to make it. I had to make sacrifices, and I had to raise my children.
raised rather toward
My father raised us to step toward trouble rather than to step away from it. Justin Trudeau
raised redeeming religion seen socially
I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring. Barbara Ehrenreich
round
You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen. Lefty Grove
round
It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring. Samantha Fox
rounds
I am a little surprised, but delighted, to be back in it and with two rounds to go anything is still possible, Catriona Matthew
rounds howls-moving-castle
Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things. Diana Wynne Jones
rounds load products
I never went round to loads of managers saying 'this is what I have, this is my product and I'm going to be famous so you'd better sign me up.' They came to me. Amy Winehouse
rounds spoke washington
Laffey was in Washington making the rounds and I spoke with him then, Pat Toomey
round scale
If we scale back in Hong Kong, we should not scale back for the round as a whole. It is too important. Peter Mandelson
round season
This season will be his season. His all round game's a lot better and there's a lot more to come from him. Steven Gerrard
round state win
Overall, I'm happy. During the first round of the state tournament, you just want to get a win and get the jitters out.