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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. Charles Caleb Colton
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
indifference
Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. Edmund Burke
indifference plague
Are you saying a society wracked by plague is preferable to one wracked by indifference? Bernard Beckett
indifference poet
RIMER, n. A poet regarded with indifference or disesteem. Ambrose Bierce
indifference distinction indifferent
INDIFFERENT, adj. Imperfectly sensible to distinctions among things. Ambrose Bierce
indifference ideology hostility
Ideologies can survive hostility, but not indifference. Mason Cooley
indifference command
She commands who is blest with indifference. Nicolas Chamfort
indifference blind terror
Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind. James A. Baldwin
indifference disguise toleration
Toleration is often just indifference in disguise. Frederick Buechner
indifference
A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference. Ian Fleming
inhumanity survives tremendous
When you have a situation that's destructive, when there's tremendous inhumanity everywhere, you see how humanity survives in all of its different permutations. Leslie Cockburn
inhumanity hospitals
Nowhere is inhumanity more revealed than in hospitals. Anais Nin