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nature rain wicked-world
I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying. Charlie Chaplin
nature fancy facts
Nature is, in fact, a suggester of uneasiness, a promoter of pilgrimages and of excursions of the fancy which never come to any satisfactory haven. Charles Dudley Warner
nature faults reform
Nature is entirely indifferent to any reform. She perpetuates a fault as persistently as a virtue.
nature men garden
What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.
nature simple perfect
"... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large it might be, was a perfect example of what it was." Charles de Lint
nature moon clouds
The clouds were drifting over the moon at their giddiest speed, at one time wholly obscuring her, at another, suffering her to burst forth in full splendor and shed her light on all the objects around; anon, driving over her again, with increased velocity, and shrouding everything in darkness. Charles Dickens
nature giving natural
Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.
nature humility pride
We cannot think too highly of our nature, nor too humbly of ourselves. Charles Caleb Colton
nature men self
If Natur has gifted a man with powers of argeyment, a man has a right to make the best of 'em, and has not a right to stand on false delicacy, and deny that he is so gifted; for that is a turning of his back on Natur, a flouting of her, a slighting of her precious caskets, and a proving of one's self to be a swine that isn't worth her scattering pearls before.
hands voice storm
I love this world," he added. "That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my power to leave it in a better state than it was when I found it. At the same time I know that this can never be. The world has grown so complex that one voice can do little to alter it any longer. That doesn't stop me from doing what I can, but it makes the task hard. The successes are so small, the failures so large and many. It's like trying to stem a storm with one's bare hands.
hands world ifs
if the world go wrong, it was, in some off-hand manner, never meant to go right.
hands feelings excess
The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.
hands class two
Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.
hands sorrow tears
If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!
hands feet office
Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
hands library grew
I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries. Charles Stross
hands soul half
I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Charles Spurgeon
hands despair rope
Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.
human-nature abstinence appetite
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
human-nature lifeless permanent
The more a thing tends to be permanent, the more it tends to be lifeless. Alan Watts
human-nature born unfortunate
Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press. David Hume
human-nature multitudes
What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so. Baltasar Gracian
human-nature socialism economics
German Marxian's coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed. Ludwig von Mises
human-nature conventions should
It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. Denis Diderot
human-nature social institutions
Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it. Edward Abbey
human-nature humans human-beings
You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.
human-nature cheat free-market
There can never be such a thing as a free market, because it is human nature to cheat, monopolize, and buy off others so as to corner the market. Jane Smiley