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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.
utterance study evidence
Utterance is the evidence of foregone study. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
utterance clients oppression
No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. Abraham Lincoln
utterance form sweeping
Sweeping, confident articles on the future seem to me, intellectually, the most disreputable of all forms of public utterance. Kenneth Clark
utterance given pure
God is not the mere dead conception to which we have thus given utterance, but he is in himself pure Life. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
utterance body spirit
We were not meant to mask ourselves before our fellow-beings, but to be, through our human forms, true and clear utterances of the spirit within. Since God gave us these bodies, they must have been given us as guides to Him and revealers of Him. Lucy Larcom
utterance adequate fowl
Language,-human language,-after all is but little better than the croak and cackle of fowls, and other utterances of brute nature,-sometimes not so adequate. Nathaniel Hawthorne
utterance belief intentionality
An utterance can have Intentionality, just as a belief has Intentionality, but whereas the Intentionality of the belief is intrinsic the Intentionality of the utterance is derived. John Searle
utterance way hobbies
But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history. Thomas Lynch
ghost miserable said
In the main, ghosts are said to be forlorn and generally miserable, if not downright depressed. The jolly ghost is rare. Dick Cavett
ghost feels wells
Well, whatever they say, you don't feel like ghosts. C. S. Lewis
ghost speak spokes
Because, as we are told—a sad old joke, too— Ghosts, like the ladies, never speak till spoke to. Bill Vaughan
ghost nobody
like a ghost town. Nothing open, nobody around. Souza
ghost holy warn
The Holy Ghost will warn us of danger, and it will inspire us to help others in need. Joseph B. Wirthlin
ghostly movies
I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list. Talulah Riley
ghost gifts holy horrid pretending
Sir, the pretending to extraordinary revelations and gifts of the Holy Ghost is a horrid thing, a very horrid thing Joseph Butler
ghost hear
We hear Galveston is a ghost town. It's impressive.
ghost injury difficult
There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury. Alexander Smith