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book night men
Although I am an old man, night is generally my time for walking. Charles Dickens
book reading writing
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
book knowledge men
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of these. He that studies only men, will get the body of knowledge without the soul, and he that studies only books, the soul without the body. Charles Caleb Colton
book reading advice
When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.
book merit lovers
We should choose our books as we would our companions, for their sterling and intrinsic merit.
book reading writing
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
book reading writing
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.
book writing companion
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose, for good books are as scarce as good companions, and in both instances, all that we can learn from baad ones is, that some much time has been worse than thrown away.
book men soul
He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.
world surprise enough
I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything
world affection should
Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.
world lines facts
Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him. Charles Spurgeon
world crosses remedy
The world's one and only remedy is the cross.
world causes christ
Anything which you have in this world, which you do not consecrate to Christ's cause, you do rob the Lord of.
world looks christ
There is somebody in the world whom you have to bring to Christ. I do not know where he is, or who he is; but you had better look out for him.
world whole
The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is Alan Watts
world victim define-yourself
Do you define yourself as a victim of the world? Or, as the world?
world forget
In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
vulgarity-is heartless littles
A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness Caitlin Thomas
vulgarity dislike
Above all, I dislike vulgarity. Diane Kruger
vulgarity-is tragedy comedy
There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close. Barbara Stanwyck
vulgarity nations
... vulgarity has no nation. Arthur Miller
vulgarity-is revealing-something literature
Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. E. M. Forster
vulgarity-is salad garlic
Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life. Cyril Connolly
vulgarity-is inability pieces
Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse. Friedrich Nietzsche
vulgarity-is circus sometimes
Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus. George Bernard Shaw
vulgarity-is satin obvious
Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun. Nathaniel Parker Willis