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character eye names
If her eyes had no expression, it was probably because they had nothing to express. If she had few wrinkles, it was because her mind had never traced its name or any other inscription on her face. Charles Dickens
character interesting long
"My comfort is," said Susan, looking back at Mr. Dombey, "that I have told a piece of truth this day which ought to have been told long before and can't be told too often or too plain..."
character boys thinking
"You are a boy," said Mr. Dombey, suddenly and almost fiercely; "and what you think of, or affect to think of, is of little consequence. You have done well, Sir. Don't undo it."
character half tongue
Living authors, therefore, are usually, bad companions. If they have not gained character, they seek to do so by methods often ridiculous, always disgusting; and if they have established a character, they are silent for fear of losing by their tongue what they have acquired by their pen--for many authors converse much more foolishly than Goldsmith, who have never written half so well. Charles Caleb Colton
character abuse criticism
When certain persons abuse us, let us ask ourselves what description of characters it is that they admire; we shall often find this a very consolatory question.
character men support
We should not be too niggardly in our praise, for men will do more to support a character than to raise one.
character suffering peculiar
Very great personages are not likely to form very just estimates either of others or of themselves; their knowledge of themselves is obscured by the flattery of others; their knowledge of others is equally clouded by circumstances peculiar to themselves. For in the presence of the great, the modest are sure to suffer from too much diffidence, and the confident from too much display.
character water taste
Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.
character long aging
Short as life is, some find it long enough to outlive their characters, their constitutions and their estates.
circumstances happenings dues
More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance. Edward Gorey
circumstances resolve
Let us resolve to be happy regardless of our circumstance. Dieter F. Uchtdorf
circumstances happenings
Happiness doesn't come from external circumstances. It comes from the inside-regardless of what is happening around us.
circumstances depends evident
Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself. Bertrand Russell
circumstances confluence reproach
There are in life such confluences of circumstances that render the reproach that we are not Voltaires most inopportune. Anton Chekhov
circumstances evolve
We, too, must change as circumstances evolve. Baldwin Spencer
circumstances
Constrained circumstances can bring the best out of you. Cameron Mackintosh
circumstances ifs
If our circumstances find us in God, we shall find God in all our circumstances. Dwight L. Moody
circumstances
Faith puts God between us and our circumstances. Daniel Webster