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greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Charles Caleb Colton
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away. Charles Dickens
great-expectations strange melancholy
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
great-expectations may done
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
great-expectations may let-me
Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
theory
The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful. Herbert A. Simon
theory
Was Einstein's theory good? Relatively. Bo Burnham
theory observation
Observation always involves theory. Edwin Powell Hubble
theory understood convinced
Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it. Chaim Weizmann
theory
My theory. Music can fix anything. Anything. Asa Butterfield
theory
Everybody has a theory. Daniel Handler
theory precision unified
A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision. Brian Greene
theory
The oldest theory of contract is I think negative.
theory therefore trivial
If string theory is a mistake, it's not a trivial mistake. It's a deep mistake and therefore kind of worthy. Lee Smolin
weeping
I'm always weeping at something or other. Gail Porter
weeping-willows narrative pages
one of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy's ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which are simply plain narratives in ballad form of how an unenjoyable time was had by all. Rebecca West
women resentment consequence
Women generally consider consequences in love, seldom in resentment.
women flower sun
Pleasure is to women what the sun is to the flower; if moderately enjoyed, it beautifies, it refreshes, and it improves; if immoderately, it withers, deteriorates and destroys.
women want ornaments
Modesty is the richest ornament of a woman ... the want of it is her greatest deformity.
women intellectual female
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male.
women doe attention
The plainest man who pays attention to women, will sometimes succeed as well as the handsomest man who does not.
women modest bashful
Women that are the least bashful are often the most modest.
women decorum length
Women do not transgress the bounds of decorum so often as men; but when they do, they go greater lengths.
women said mould
She's the sort of woman now,' said Mould, . . . 'one would almost feel disposed to bury for nothing: and do it neatly, too!
women want today
You see what happens today. Women act like men and want to be treated like women. Alan Jay Lerner