Charles Dickens Quotes
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a fantastic kind of warmth certainly, but not exactly that kind of warmth of feeling which the contemplation of virtue usually inspires.Charles Dickens
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There is no way a spirit of resistance that has sunk so deep in the population can be repressed.
Oliver Tambo -
A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
Han Fei -
This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.
Walter Reisch -
When you're collaborating with somebody, there has to be a spirit of cooperation. There are a lot of times when you just can't persuade someone to write a certain type of song, either musically or lyrically.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
We need worship for our spirit, fellowship for our soul and committed subservience for our body.
Larry Norman -
If you have a certain wildness of spirit, a cabinet maker's workshop is not the place to express it.
Daniel Day-Lewis
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This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.
Harry Belafonte -
Compassion is not a popular virtue.
Karen Armstrong -
Today, I regularly attend two Buddhist organizations, the Zen Center of Los Angeles and Against the Stream, but I also attend certain Christian functions. I try to cultivate a generous, kind spirit and am open to anything to help get me there.
Maggie Rowe -
When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
Saadi -
God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.
Orson Pratt -
The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.
Wassily Kandinsky
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The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour.
Karl Marx -
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.
Victor Hugo -
A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Samuel Butler -
To appropriate an invention, be it artistic or technical, you have to have at least a part of your spirit embracing it so radically that you somehow change.
Orhan Pamuk -
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Your spirit is your spirit, whether you're religious or whatever.
Samantha Morton
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Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.
Honore de Balzac -
I want my people to stay with me here. All the dead men will come to life again. Their spirits will come to their bodies again. We must wait here in the homes of our fathers and be ready to meet them in the bosom of our mother.
Wovoka -
We all bear scars,... Mine just happen to be more visible than most.
Sarah J. Maas -
Out alone in the winter rain, / Intent on giving and taking pain.
Robert Frost -
... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a fantastic kind of warmth certainly, but not exactly that kind of warmth of feeling which the contemplation of virtue usually inspires.
Charles Dickens