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country easy walks
It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something. Charles Dickens
country men climate
In all countries where nature does the most, man does the least. Charles Caleb Colton
country travel home
Those who visit foreign nations, but associate only with their own country-men, change their climate, but not their customs. They see new meridians, but the same men; and with heads as empty as their pockets, return home with traveled bodies, but untravelled minds. Charles Caleb Colton
country sadness men
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they are constantly in the habit of seeing both extremes. Charles Caleb Colton
country heart simple
As the grand discordant harmony of the celestial bodies may be explained by the simple principles of gravity and impulse, so also in that more wonderful and complicated microcosm, the heart of man, all the phenomena of morals are perhaps resolvable into one single principle, the pursuit of apparent good; for although customs universally vary, yet man in all climates and countries is essentially the same. Charles Caleb Colton
country self names
The most notorious swindler has not assumed so many names as self-love, nor is so much ashamed of his own. She calls herself patriotism, when at the same time she is rejoicing at just as much calamity to her native country as will introduce herself into power, and expel her rivals. Charles Caleb Colton
country mean hands
Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail. Charles Dickens
country night men
If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe. Charles Dickens
country character men
Rattle me out of bed early, set me going, give me as short a time as you like to bolt my meals in, and keep me at it. Keep me always at it, and I'll keep you always at it, you keep somebody else always at it. There you are with the Whole Duty of Man in a commercial country. Charles Dickens
military opportunity land
American foreign policy and military might have opened an opportunity for the Gospel in the land of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Charles Stanley
military troops chechnya
Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996. Akhmad Kadyrov
military america stronger
The first thing we need to do to make America stronger is to strengthen our military. Chris Christie
military congress folks
We talk about our military being degraded over time and yet we've had folks who've been a part of Congress who have participated in sequester; who participated in the degrading of this military over time. Chris Christie
military land sky
How can you buy or sell the sky, the warmth of the land? ... The end of living and the beginning of survival. Chief Seattle
military marine want
There are not enough chinamen in the world to stop a fully armed Marine regiment from going where ever they want to go. Chesty Puller
military real marine
Take me to the Brig. I want to see the "real Marines". Chesty Puller
military skills victory
Through the skill and devotion to duty of their armed forces of all branches in the Midway area our citizens can now rejoice that a momentous victory is in the making. Chester W. Nimitz
military taken responsibility
I have just taken on a great responsibility. I will do my utmost to meet it. Chester W. Nimitz
sheep needs herds
I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
sheep would-be shepherds
They would be the shepherds over us, their sheep. Certainly such an arrangement presupposes that they are naturally superior to the rest of us. And certainly we are fully justified in demanding from the legislators and organizers proof of this natural superiority. Frederic Bastiat
sheep protect
To protect the sheep, you gotta catch the wolf. And it takes a wolf to catch a wolf, you understand? Denzel Washington
sheep goats concern
The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern. Edna Ferber
sheep body cows
Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow. Benjamin Franklin
sheep littles sometimes
A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you. Benjamin Franklin
sheep white legs
It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little white sheep attached to their legs or backsides and the rest shouting about monsters. Diana Wynne Jones
sheep legs
To say a sheep has 5 legs doesn't make it so. Abraham Lincoln
sheep wolves-in-sheeps-clothing clothings
I am not a wolf in sheep's clothing, I'm a wolf in wolf's clothing. Ricky Gervais