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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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Dickens
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. Charles Dickens
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. Charles Dickens
learning enemy safe
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends. Charles Caleb Colton
learning ignorance knowledge
The greater the scientist, the more he is impressed with his ignorance of reality, and the more he realizes that his laws and labels, descriptions and definitions, are the products of his own thought. They help him to use the world for purposes of his own devising rather than understand and explain it. Alan Watts
learning evolution programming
Optimization hinders evolution. Alan Perlis
learning nouns programming
Any noun can be verbed. Alan Perlis
learning thinking language
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming. Alan Perlis
learning thinking knowing
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing. Alan Perlis
learning machines program
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program. Alan Perlis
learning
I play guitar, piano, and I'm learning to play the drums. Nolan Sotillo
learning thinking brain
I think it's so important to keep learning and keep your brain active. Beverley Mitchell
native-american people earth
Every part of the earth is sacred to my people. Chief Seattle
native-american heart earth
Your religion was written on tablets of stone, ours on our hearts. 8. We are part of the earth and the earth is part of us. Chief Seattle
native-american web-of-life earth-day
All things are bound together. All things connect. Chief Seattle
native-american air water
We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water. How can you buy them from us? Chief Seattle
native-american might waste
The whites, too, shall pass - perhaps sooner than other tribes. Continue to contaminate your own bed, and you might suffocate in your own waste. Chief Seattle
native-american people world
Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only change of worlds. Chief Seattle
native-american men air
All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports. Chief Seattle
native-american law great-american
I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty. Chief Joseph
native-american men white-man
If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indianwe can live in peace. There need be no trouble. Treat all men alike. give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. Chief Joseph
rooms mouths rings
When I open my mouth, the room rings. David H. Murdock
rooms mixing paint
My 20s were spent in a room, alone, mixing paints and figuring it all out. Caio Fonseca
rooms band wrecks
Other bands wanted to wreck hotel rooms; Roxy Music wanted to redecorate them. Bryan Ferry
rooms use world
whatever the uses of a room, they are seriously interfered with if it be not preserved as a world by itself. Edith Wharton
rooms ambiguity clear
In the future there cannot be room for ambiguity. They have to make their position absolutely clear before they can expect anyone to respond to it. David Trimble
rooms headache measuring
Measuring and laying out the room in advance can save you a lot of headaches. David Bromstad
rooms walks i-can
I can walk into a room with all my contemporaries and I will be very comfortable. Deepika Padukone
rooms firsts lucky
If I'm lucky, when I paint, first my patrons leave the room, then my dealers, and if I'm really lucky I leave too. Edouard Manet
rooms alive ifs
If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive. Arthur Conan Doyle
thought-provoking house ceilings
When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it? Chinua Achebe
thought-provoking giving headache
Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches! Chinua Achebe
thought-provoking
The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience. Chinua Achebe
thoughtful long battle
Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both), the time has come to address its implications, as these thoughtful, battle-tested authors attempt to do. The time has long since come. David Quammen
thoughts-of-death repose
Death is repose, but the thought of death disturbs all repose. Cesare Pavese
thoughtful decision sticks
I'm very thoughtful, and when I make a decision I usually stick to it. Casey Stoner
thoughtful talking going-away
That is not the best sermon which makes the hearers go away talking to one another and praising the speaker, but which makes them go away thoughtful and serious, and hastening to be alone. William Shakespeare
thousand conscience
Conscience is a thousand swords. William Shakespeare
thoughtful perfect levels
Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head," said Peridan. "Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins." "It is very true," said Edmund. "But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did." And he looked very thoughtful. C. S. Lewis
thyself
Acquaint thyself with God. Aiden Wilson Tozer
thyme bishops stories
No prince had lived in those wretched hovels, no red-robed bishops, only farmers and laborers whose stories no one had written down, and now they were lost, buried under wild thyme and fast growing spurge. Cornelia Funke
thyself
In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself. Edgar Allan Poe
thy
I have rejoiced in the way of thy testimonies, as much as in all riches. Bible Bible
thyself
Content thyself to be obscurely good. Joseph Addison
thyself
Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others. Thomas Browne