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country easy walks
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. Charles Dickens
country men climate
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least. Charles Caleb Colton
country travel home
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds.
country sadness men
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes.
country heart simple
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same.
country self names
The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals.
country mean hands
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.
country night men
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.
country character men
Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country.
saint has-beens ought
Some reputed saints that have been canonized ought to have been cannonaded.
saint sinner
One can convert only a sinner, never a saint. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
saint sin confession
If you would know whether you have made a good confession, ask yourself I you have resolved to abandon your sins. Bernard of Clairvaux
saint influence
My earliest influences were Coco Chanel and Yves Saint Laurent. Bella Freud
saint
I am a Count, Not a Saint. Alexandre Dumas
saint lost patron
Each lost day has its patron saint! Bret Harte
saint goodness goodness-of-god
A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God. Brennan Manning
saint fans hours
I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome. Brett Favre
saint impossible difficult
What is impossible to God? Not that which is difficult to His power, but that which is contrary to His nature. English Proverbs
philosopher
Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves. Blaise Pascal
philosopher economic psychological
The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties. Allan Bloom
philosopher influential mystery
It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill. Alfred Korzybski
philosophers-and-philosophy philosophy plato received regard
Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
philosopher lovers
A philosopher's a lover of wisdom. Cornel West
philosophers-and-philosophy station themselves
The philosopher must station themselves in the middle. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
philosophers-and-philosophy philosophy rather seeks solve
Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
philosopher great-philosophers scholar
A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher.
philosopher middle stations
The philosophers must station themselves in the middle.