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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.
god-love god-loves-us
God loves us deeply, perfectly, and everlastlingly. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
god-love god-loves-us ought
God loves us as we are...not as we ought to be. because we are never going to be as we ought to be." --Brennan Manning Brennan Manning
god-love
Nothing can separate me from the love of God. Ayrton Senna
god-love should expected
It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things. Isaac Watts
god-love enough straws
It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God. Brother Lawrence
god-love gods-will
The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His. E. Stanley Jones
god-love christianity god-loves-us
The great truth about Christianity is not that we love God - it's that God loves us. Curtis Martin
god-love piety
Love of God is not always the same as love of good. Hermann Hesse
god-love greater
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest. Herodotus
one-thing i-can
The one thing I can assure you is that I'm not going to do a Prescott. David Trimble
one-thing better-than-you be-you
One thing nobody can do better than you is be you. Elizabeth Moon
one-thing one-thing-after-another
[L]ife isn't one thing after another, it's the same thing over and over Edna St. Vincent Millay
one-thing
One thing you cannot control is nature. Diana Ross
one-thing keep-going
One thing I've come to learn about myself is that I have to keep going. Andrew Mason
one-thing floats
I'm pretty freelance. A freelance meditator. I float from one thing to the other. Alex Ebert
one-thing
The one thing women love more than money is power. D. L. Hughley
one-thing
Education is the one thing that no one can take from you. B. B. King
one-thing
You cannot do only one thing. Garrett Hardin