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essence generosity selfishness
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing. Charles Caleb Colton
essence ideas mind
We must suit the flattery to the mind and taste of the recipient. We do not put essences into hogsheads, nor porter into phials. Delicate minds may be disgusted by compliments that would please a grosser intellect; as some fine ladies who would be shocked at the idea of a dram will not refuse a liqueur.
essence news world
The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news. Charles Spurgeon
essence life material source truth worth
The source of all the material comes from nothingness, illusion is working more on things you can prove. That's the principle, the essence of life, it is actually an illusion, not immaterial. That's worth pursuing. So illusion is not nothing. In a way, that is the truth. Ang Lee
essence civilization tribes
... poetry is one of the essential structures of civilization -- carrying myth, ritual, 'tales of the tribe' and the essence of language ... Diane Wakoski
essence history mind
History is, in its essence, exciting; to present it as dull is, to my mind, stark and unforgivable misrepresentation. Catherine Drinker Bowen
essence simplicity taste
Simplicity, to me, has always been the essence of good taste. Cary Grant
essence prejudice symptoms
Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love? Jane Austen
essence perspective loses
What we've had to do is learn to control success, put it in perspective, and not lose the essence of what we're doing - the music. Janis Joplin
bears pleasure fullness
Some are cursed with the fullness of satiety; and how can they bear the ills of life when its very pleasures fatigue them?
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There is no doubt that the recent rally is fueled by a lot of short covering from bears thinking the New Orleans debacle would cause jitters on Wall Street. Tom Hougaard
bears cry
I fought a bear once. But it started crying, so I let it off. Ricky Gervais
bears check nuisance
We know we're getting nuisance bears in the check stations.
bears black children crowd experience fascinates giant national white zoo
We know from 28 years of experience with giant pandas at the National Zoo that they are real crowd pleasers, ... There is just something about these black and white bears that fascinates children and adults.
bears relation persons
The image we have of a famous person often bears no relation to them. David Tang
bears hebrew people relationship standard
People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.
bears element guess love seductive sounds though
I'd love a werebear. But I guess you need that seductive element of danger. And though bears can be dangerous, when you say werebear it just sounds kind of cuddly. Probably has a rainbow on his belly. Kandyse McClure
bears affinity cunning
Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.
virtue
Patience is not a virtue! Alan Chadwick
virtue thrifty ifs
If our virtues did not go forth of us, it were all alike as if we had them not. William Shakespeare
virtue scapes calumny
Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.
virtue cardinals temperance
That cardinal virtue, temperance. Edmund Burke
virtue
All virtue which is impracticable is spurious.
virtue reason revelations
Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain, in respect to ourselves, to our fellowmen, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation. Archibald Alexander
virtue nobility
Virtue is the only and true nobility. [Lat., Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus.] Juvenal
virtue glory thirst
So much greater is our thirst for glory than for virtue.
virtue
Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong. Bertolt Brecht