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cutting giving wealth
Those that will not permit their wealth to do any good for others. . . cut themselves off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later. Charles Caleb Colton
cutting lions teeth
He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.
cutting men turkeys
It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey, when they cut the wrong man's head off. Charles Dickens
cutting garden weather
In fine weather the old gentelman is almost constantly in the garden; and when it is too wet to go into it, he will look out the window at it, by the hour together. He has always something to do there, and you will see him digging, and sweeping, and cutting, and planting, with manifest delight.
cutting popularity minutes
I know God can cut it (popularity) off in a minute. Charles Stanley
cutting stones firsts
Habits, soft and pliant at first, are like some coral stones, which are easily cut when first quarried, but soon become hard as adamant. Charles Spurgeon
cutting scripture ifs
If you cut him, (John Bunyan) he'd bleed Scripture!
cutting years bangs
Billions of years ago you were a big bang. But now you're a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off. And don't feel that we're still the big bang. But you are. Alan Watts
cutting light knives
The Godhead is never an object of its own knowledge. Just as a knife doesn't cut itself, fire doesn't burn itself, light doesn't illuminate itself. It's always an endless mystery to itself.
fortune difficulty careful
That which we acquire with the most difficulty we retain the longest; as those who have earned a fortune are usually more careful of it than those who have inherited one.
fortune nations accidents
The fortune of nations has often depended on accidents . . . Edward Gibbon
fortune good-fortune
I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family. Carlos Fuentes
fortune-cookie plans
It's better to have a bad plan then no plan at all. Charles de Gaulle
fortune tricks
Fortune has played me a sad trick by letting me live on and on. Belle Boyd
fortune good imposed privilege rank
The responsibilities which are imposed by rank and privilege and good fortune can... become very onerous indeed. Robert W. Welch, Jr.
fortune good ray
Luckily, I have the good fortune of being on the same team as Ray Lewis. I don't have to face him on Sunday. Jamal Lewis
fortune found gotten hanging meeting particular special
I've had the fortune of meeting most of the 'Kids in the Hall.' One meeting was special in particular because this was before I had gotten anything, before anything was clicking, and I just found myself hanging out with Scott Thompson. Thomas Middleditch
fortune hostage
Every happiness is a hostage to fortune. Arthur Helps
demigods elders
When your elders are millennia-old demigods, you’d best take the injunction to respect your elders seriously. Nalo Hopkinson
demigods conventions assembly
[The Federal Convention] is really an assembly of demigods. Thomas Jefferson