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eye home dark
Bleak, dark, and piercing cold, it was a night for the well-housed and fed to draw round the bright fire, and thank God they were at home; and for the homeless starving wretch to lay him down and die. Many hunger-worn outcasts close their eyes in our bare streets at such times, who, let their crimes have been what they may, can hardly open them in a more bitter world. Charles Dickens
eye numbers envy
As the rays of the sun, notwithstanding their velocity, injure not the eye, by reason of their minuteness, so the attacks of envy, notwithstanding their number, ought not to wound our virtue by reason of their insignificance. Charles Caleb Colton
eye sight sore-eyes
the sight of me is good for sore eyes Charles Dickens
eye men thinking
I am no more annoyed when I think of the expression, than I should be annoyed by a man's opinion of a picture of mine, who had no eye for pictures; or of a piece of music of mine, who had no ear for music. Charles Dickens
eye hands evil
But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless. Charles Dickens
eye hypocrisy shining
[S]he stood for some moments gazing at the sisters, with affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other. Charles Dickens
eye mad black
An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror. Charles Dickens
eye light skins
With throbbing veins and burning skin, eyes wild and heavy, thoughts hurried and disordered, he felt as though the light were a reproach, and shrunk involuntarily from the day as if he were some foul and hideous thing. Charles Dickens
eye thoughtful great-expectations
She had curiously thoughtful and attentive eyes; eyes that were very pretty and very good. Charles Dickens
gossip males female
There are male as well as female gossips. Charles Caleb Colton
gossip mind let-it-go
While you're meditating, all kinds of thoughts arise... You don't find your thoughts threatening or particularly helpful. They just become the general gossip of your thoughts. This traffic of your thoughts and the verbosity of your mind are simply part of the basic chatter that goes on in the universe. Just let it go through. Chogyam Trungpa
gossip foul rings
Foul whisp'rings are abroad. William Shakespeare
gossip may slander
How much an ill word may empoison liking! William Shakespeare
gossip gossiping-and-rumors
Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't. Earl Wilson
gossip people village
A writer's business is minding other people's business ... all the vices of the village gossip are the virtues of the writer. Dawn Powell
gossip coins lightning
I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day. Dennis Miller
gossip people competition
There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profits... All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment. Edgar Degas
gossip virtue
no one ever gossips about the virtues of others Bertrand Russell
witness
Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness. Louis C. K.
witness
A writer's work is to witness things. Edward Hoagland
witnessed
We have witnessed the most extraordinary devastation. The magnitude of the situation is unbelievable. It's just heartbreaking. Kathleen Blanco
witness
We did not actually get to witness the reunion. Deon Santisteven
witness
When you listen to a witness, you become a witness. Elie Wiesel
witness
I think you're a witness and a recorder. John Pomfret
witnesses
Witnesses say he pretty much plowed into them, that he just tapped the brakes, Philip Brooks
witnesses
Unfortunately, there were no witnesses and there's very little evidence. Cheryl Conway
witness wanted
I have not been the witness I wanted to be. Joan Didion