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men
Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day. Charles Dickens
men hair doors
An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door.
men brotherhood common
The more man knows of man, the better for the common brotherhood among men.
men fellow-man spirit
It is required of every man," the ghost returned, "that the spirit within him should walk abroad among his fellow-men, and travel far and wide; and, if that spirit goes not forth in life, it is condemned to do so after death.
men laughing people
When a man bleeds inwardly, it is a dangerous thing for himself; but when he laughs inwardly, it bodes no good to other people.
men judging world
Most men unconsciously judge the world from themselves, and it will be very generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature, and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant samples.
men coats shabby
It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat. Charles Caleb Colton
men talking two
When we are in the company of sensible men, we ought to be doubly cautious of talking too much, lest we lose two good things, their good opinion and our own improvement; for what we have to say we know, but what they have to say we know not.
men years two
No man can promise himself even fifty years of life, but any man may, if he please, live in the proportion of fifty years in forty-let him rise early, that he may have the day before him, and let him make the most of the day, by determining to expend it on two sorts of acquaintance only-those by whom something may be got, and those from whom something maybe learned.
sloth laziness virtue
Sloth, if it has prevented many crimes, has also smothered many virtues.
sloth unreliability answers
What do you want to avoid? Such an easy answer: sloth and unreliability. If you're unreliable it doesn't matter what your virtues are. You're going to crater immediately. Doing what you have faithfully engaged to do should be an automatic part of your conduct. You want to avoid sloth and unreliability. Charlie Munger
sloth laziness easy
Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy. Benjamin Franklin
sloth overcoming diligence
Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them.
sloth laziness hard
Weariness can snore upon the flint when resting sloth finds the down pillow hard. William Shakespeare
sloth lazy agnostic
You are not an agnostic.....You are just a fat slob who is too lazy to go to Mass. Conor Cruise O'Brien
sloth heroic enterprise
I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth. Edward Abbey
sloth paradise laziness
Sloth is the tempter that beguiles and expels from paradise. Amos Bronson Alcott
sloth apes court
And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!
idlers gears wheels
If I were to imagine myself as an idler wheel inside some big mix of gears, then I would be connected to everything. It's not like there's just me and then nothing. Fiona Apple
idlers poet ifs
All poets are idlers, even if all idlers are not poets. Tom Hodgkinson