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distance men world
Were the life of man prolonged, he would become such a proficient in villainy, that it would become necessary again to drown or to burn the world. Earth would become an hell; for future rewards when put off to a great distance, would cease to encourage, and future punishments to alarm. Charles Caleb Colton
distance character order
That politeness which we put on, in order to keep the assuming and the presumptuous at a proper distance will generally succeed. But it sometimes happens that these obtrusive characters are on such excellent terms with themselves that they put down this very politeness to the score of their own great merits and high pretensions, meeting the coldness of our reserve with a ridiculous condescension of familiarity, in order to set us at ease with ourselves.
distance knees remember
We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor. Charles Stanley
distance lying night
I am convinced that there is no great distance between heaven and earth, that the distance lies in our finite minds. When the Beloved visits us in the night, He turns our chambers into the vestibules of His palace halls. Earth rises to heaven when heaven comes down to earth. Charles Spurgeon
distance men law
The law shows the distance that exists between God and man; the Gospel bridges that awful chasm and brings the sinner across it.
distance home house
The distance between the glorified spirits in heaven and the militant saints on earth seems great; but it is not so. We are not far from home. Heaven... is just one sigh and we get there. Our departed friends are only in the upper room, as it were, of the same house; they have not gone far off; they are upstairs and we are down below.
distance reality love-is
Life is suffering. We have desires and expectations and egos, and we compare the reality we have, which is miraculous and wondrous, with this reality we desire. That somehow distances us from actually taking part fully with the reality we do have, and that creates suffering. For me, the thing that I love is that it's all about the present moment. Alan Ball
distance joy mind
The ambitious will always be first in the crowd; he presseth forward, he looketh not behind him. More anguish is it to his mind to see one before him, than joy to leave thousands at a distance Akhenaton
distance book writing
God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words, constantly speaking His words and causing the power of them to persist across the years. Aiden Wilson Tozer
lends optimist pessimist
The pessimist borrows trouble? the optimist lends encouragement. William Ward
lends nobody price profit
This is unacceptable, and frankly, lends credibility to accusations of price gouging, ... Nobody should profit from tragedy. Bill Richardson
robes judicial touched
When the spotless ermine of the judicial robe fell on John Jay, it touched nothing less spotless than itself. Daniel Webster
tissues disease patient
End-stage liver disease refers to a liver that's failing, and a very high percentage of those livers are what we call cirrhotic, or the patient's liver has become cirrhotic, and what cirrhosis is, is the scarring of the liver tissue. John Roberts
tissues legs arms
Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue. Augusten Burroughs
tissues disease patient
Every 30 seconds a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement, Anthony Atala
tissues kind form
If you have the material it will form itself as a kind of connective tissue. James McBride
tissues culinary
Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most? Frank Bruni
tissues substance life-is
To learn new habits is everything, for it is to reach the substance of life. Life is but a tissue of habits. Henri Frederic Amiel
tissues chlorine action
[The popular impression about some chemists is that] the aquafortis and the chlorine of the laboratories have as effectually bleached the poetry out of them, as they destroy the colours of tissues exposed to their action. George Wilson
tissues world communism
World communism is like [a] malignant parasite which feeds on diseased tissue George F. Kennan
tissues tests hollywood
If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be? Pauline Kael