FastSaying

A creed is a rod,/ And a crown is of night:/ But this thing is God:/ To be man with thy might,/ To grow straight in the strength of thy spirit, and live out thy life as the light.


Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Hold tight the gift seeds in thy palms. Sow them all when the time is right. By God's wisdom they'll...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR As thy days, so shall thy strength be which, in modern language, may be translated as thy thoughts s...
EMMET FOX Live thy creed in the love of Christ.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Think truly, and thy thoughts Shall the world's famine feed. Speak truly, and each word of thi...
HORATIUS BONAR, D.D. Thy shoes shall be of iron and brass: and as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
BIBLE For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the opp...
BIBLE Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 Matthew xi. 27. JESUS, th...
CHARLES WESLEY That which is gone out of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according ...
BIBLE Christmas Eve A God must have a God for company. And lo! thou hast the Son-God to thy friend. Tho...
GEORGE MACDONALD If hindrances obstruct the way, Thy magnanimity display. And let thy strength be seen: B...
WILLIAM COWPER Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the fi...
BIBLE Life is a service. Serve in the grace of strength within thy soul.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA If thy meditation tends to fill thy note-book with notions, and good sayings, concerning God, and no...
RICHARD BAXTER Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
GEORGE HERBERT Thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
BIBLE Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 I know Thee, Saviour, Who T...
CHARLES WESLEY Commemoration of Douglas Downes, Founder of the Society of Saint Francis, 1957 There are three less...
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Dwell not upon thy weariness, thy strength shall be according to the measure of thy desire.
ARAB PROVERB But when thou findest sensibility of heart, joined with softness of manners, an accomplished mind, a...
NOAH WEBSTER I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED Set faith at work on Christ for the killing of thy sin. His blood is the great sovereign remedy for ...
JOHN OWEN Give not over thy soul to sorrow; and afflict not thyself in thy own counsel. Gladness of heart is t...
ECCLESIASTES Come, I will fasten on this sleeve of thine: Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine, Whose weak...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy
eyes—and moreover, I will go w...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occup...
BIBLE Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thine heart be hasty to utter any thing before God; for God...
BIBLE If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER Every day in thy life is a leaf in thy history.
UNKNOWN She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN And if a man have committed a sin worthy of death, and he be to be put to death, and thou hang him o...
BIBLE Light Winged Smoke Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lar...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU Spirit divine, attend our prayers. And make this house thy home; Descend with all thy gracious p...
ANDREW REED Prince, give praise to our French ladies For the sweet sound their speaking carries; 'Twixt Ro...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.
MORIHEI UESHIBA To God, thy countrie, and thy friend be true.
BILL VAUGHAN To God, thy country, and thy friend be true.
BILL VAUGHAN For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA Sinner, I would be loth to have thy soul destroyed by wilful self-delusion. . . . So consequently, t...
RICHARD BAXTER I know, 0 Caesar, that thou art awaiting my arrival with impatience, that thy true heart of a friend...
HENRYK SIENKIEWICZ Have thy heart in heaven and thy hands upon the earth. Ascend in piety and descend in charity. For t...
THOMAS VAUGHAN Lord, come away; Why dost thou stay? Thy road is ready and thy paths made straight With longing e...
JEREMY TAYLOR Give God thy heart, thy service, and thy gold; The day wears on, and time is waxing old. - Un...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR Only thy holy things which thou hast, and thy vows, thou shalt take, and go unto the place which the...
BIBLE Grant that I may radiate Thy Light, Thy Love,
Thy Healing, Thy Joy, and Thy Peace
to all t...
JONATHAN LOCKWOOD HUIE Thy father's merit sets thee up to view, And shows thee in the fairest point of light, To make...
JOSEPH ADDISON But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.
BIBLE He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass.
HORACE He is armed without who is innocent within, be this thy screen, and this thy wall of brass
HORACE Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Such as thy words are, such will thine affections be esteemed; and such as thine affections, will be...
SOCRATES Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise: and they shall break ...
BIBLE Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life. - Matthew Prior,
MATTHEW PRIOR Hail to thee, far above the rest In joy of voice and pinion! Thou, linnet! in thy green array...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Easter Feast of George, Martyr, Patron of England, c.304 Commemoration of Michael Ramsey, Archbish...
HENRY VAUGHAN For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night...
BIBLE Beware
Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in,
Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. <...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
LAUREN MYRACLE Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any like...
BIBLE "Wind to thy wings. Light to thy path. Dreams to thy heart.
OLASOT LightWinged Smoke Lightwinged Smoke, Icarian bird, Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight, Lark...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR This...is the surer, safer, saner way of meditation. For, when the mind is absent from the body it i...
EDGAR CAYCE In a storm, I think, 'What if the gospel be not true? Then thou art, of all men, most foolish. F...
JOHN WESLEY Hang on! God will be thy strength in any act of your pursuit.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep,...
BIBLE There is no greater life, than to love God. And to love thy neighbor as thyself.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS —and I say you still haven't answered my question, Father Bleu."
"Haven't I, dear lady? I tho...
JOHN JAKES Redeem thy misspent time that's past, And live this day as if thy last.
THOMAS KEN Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy...
BIBLE If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or th...
BIBLE I hope thou shalt never retreat beneath the ground. The sun is thy inheritance. The sky is thy birth...
M.T. ANDERSON Feast of Hilda, Abbess of Whitby, 680 Commemoration of Elizabeth, Princess of Hungary, Philanthropis...
CHARLES WESLEY Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase: / So shall thy b...
BIBLE The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without cea...
SAINT AUGUSTINE The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without cea...
SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.
BIBLE To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Commemoration of Jack Winslow, Missionary, Evangelist, 1974 My God, how endless is Thy love! Thy gi...
ISAAC WATTS Pass through thy land as a river, O daughter of Tarshish: there is no more strength.
BIBLE Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.
GEORGE HERBERT Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give; ...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH So far be distant; and good night, sweet friend.
Thy love ne’er alter till thy sweet life end...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE O God, my mind is fascinated with Thy lotus feet as the bumble-bee with the flower; night and day I ...
GURU NANAK He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY I wanted to tell you that I just--I miss you. And maybe that sounds ridiculous--like we barely know ...
TAMMARA WEBBER And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the s...
BIBLE Slogans are mere wordsuck...
GABRIEL THY Art thou a man? thy form cries out thou art:
Thy tears are womanish; thy wild acts denote
...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE That thou mayest win to the sweetness of God's love, I set here three degrees of love, in the which ...
RICHARD ROLLE Go thy way, and tell my people, the people of thy Lord God what manner of things, and how great wond...
COMPTON GAGE

More Algernon Charles Swinburne

A calcined, scalped, rasped, scraped, flayed, broiled, powdered, leprous, blotched, mangy, grimy, pa...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Before the beginning of years
There came to the making of man
Time, with a gift of tears;
...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Time turns the old days to derision, our loves into corpses or wives; and marriage and death and div...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Thou has conquered, O pale Galilean.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE We shift and bedeck and bedrape us, thou art noble and nude and antique.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE For winter's rains and ruins are over,
And all the seasons of snows and sins;
The days dividi...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE No blast of air or fire of sun Puts out the light whereby we run With girdled loins our lampli...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; The world has grown gray from thy breath; We have drunke...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE This I ever held worse that all certitude, To know not what the worst ahead might be.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Between the two seas the sea-bird's wing makes halt, Wind-weary; while with lifting head he waits ...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE From too much love of living
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Before the beginning of years
There came to the making of man
Time, with a gift of tears;<...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE In fierce March weather White waves break tether, And whirled together At either hand, ...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Love lies bleeding in the bed whereover Roses lean with smiling mouths or pleading: Earth lies...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Prince, give praise to our French ladies For the sweet sound their speaking carries; 'Twixt Ro...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Heart's ease of pansy, pleasure or thought, Which would the picture give us of these? Surely t...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Sark, fairer than aught in the world that the lit skies cover, Laughs inly behind her cliffs, and ...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving ...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces,/ The mother of months in meadow or plain/ Fills th...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and di...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Change in a trice. The lilies and languors of virtue. For the raptures and roses of vice;
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE For winter's rains and ruins are over,/ And all the season of snows and sins;/ The days dividing lov...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE I am tired of tears and laughter,/ And men that laugh and weep;/ Of what may come hereafter/ For men...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and div...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE For whom all winds are quiet as the sun,/ All waters as the shore.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE And the best and the worst of this is/ That neither is most to blame/ If you have forgotten my kisse...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Pale, beyond porch and portal,/ Crowned with calm leaves, she stands,/ Who gathers all things mortal...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE And the best and the worst of this is
That neither is most to blame,
If you have forgotten...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Before the beginning of years/ There came to the making of man/ Time with a gift of tears,/ Grief wi...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Where might is, the right is:/ Long purses make strong swords./ Let weakness learn meekness:/ God sa...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Glory to Man in the highest! for Man is the master of things.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Today will die tomorrow.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown grey from thy breath;/ We have drunken of ...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end;/ Goddess and maiden and quee...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Hope thou not much, and fear thou not at all.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Maiden, and mistress of the months and stars/ Now folded in the flowerless fields of heaven.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE I will go back to the great sweet mother,/ Mother and lover of men, the sea.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Come down and redeem us from virtue,/ Our Lady of Pain.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE To say of shame - what is it? Of virtue - we can miss it; Of sin-we can kiss it, And it's no longer ...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE The thorns he spares when the rose is taken;/ The rocks are left when he wastes the plain./ The wind...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE As a god self-slain on his own strange altar,/ Death lies dead.
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and di...
ALGERNON SWINBURNE I will go back to the great sweet mother,/ Mother and lover of men, the sea.
ALGERNON SWINBURNE Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which
ALGERNON SWINBURNE For winter's rains and ruins are over,/ And all the season of snows and sins;/ The days dividing lov...
ALGERNON SWINBURNE And the best and the worst of this is/ That neither is most to blame/ If you have forgotten my kisse...
ALGERNON SWINBURNE Maiden, and mistress of the months and stars/ Now folded in the flowerless fields of heaven.
ALGERNON SWINBURNE I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end;/ Goddess and maiden and quee...
ALGERNON SWINBURNE From too much love of living, From hope and fear set free, We thank with brief thanksgiving Whatever...
ALGERNON SWINBURNE Before the beginning of years/ There came to the making of man/ Time with a gift of tears,/ Grief wi...
ALGERNON SWINBURNE Change in a trice. The lilies and languors of virtue. For the raptures and roses of vice;
ALGERNON SWINBURNE And all is not golden that glitters, And not all that glitters is gold
ALOYSIUS CHARLES SWINBURNE I am sick of the solace of sorrow, And fear what the prophets foretold; I am tired of the tears of t...
ALOYSIUS CHARLES SWINBURNE Our conviction level has been buoyed by Sirius' fourth-quarter results and long-term free cash flow ...
BENJAMIN SWINBURNE Our view on satellite radio remains bullish, and we believe that pay-radio represents a rare opportu...
BENJAMIN SWINBURNE Dolby's business model remains in transition.
BENJAMIN SWINBURNE We think [Sirius'] consistency delivering on its guidance and its focus on cost and free cash-flow y...
BENJAMIN SWINBURNE We deem this a positive for the stock given that media stocks are now primarily viewed as value stoc...
BENJAMIN SWINBURNE Liars need to have good memories.
ALGERNON SIDNEY The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
ALGERNON SYDNEY That is the best Government, which best provides for war.
ALGERNON SYDNEY Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those thin...
ALGERNON SYDNEY No right can come by conquest, unless there were a right of making that conquest.
ALGERNON SYDNEY Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passio...
ALGERNON SYDNEY Laws and constitutions ought to be weighed... to constitute that which is most conducing to the esta...
ALGERNON SYDNEY God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate...
ALGERNON SYDNEY Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must ...
ALGERNON SYDNEY All the nations they had to deal with, had the same fate.
ALGERNON SYDNEY A general presumption that Icings will govern well, is not a sufficient security to the People... th...
ALGERNON SYDNEY If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary ...
ALGERNON SIDNEY Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are kn...
ALGERNON SIDNEY Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted.
ALGERNON SIDNEY Liars ought to have good memories
ALGERNON SIDNEY Fruits are always of the same nature with the seeds and roots from which they come, and trees are kn...
ALGERNON SIDNEY Liberty cannot be preserved, if the manners of the people are corrupted
ALGERNON SIDNEY If vice and corruption prevail, liberty cannot subsist; but if virtue have the advantage, arbitrary ...
ALGERNON SIDNEY God helps those who help themselves.
ALGERNON SIDNEY Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.
ALGERNON SIDNEY The peasant thanked her with their tears, When food and clothes were given; "This is a joy," t...
ALGERNON SIDNEY He will go back to the old faith he learnt Beside his mother's knee.
ALGERNON SIDNEY He told me once The saddest thing that can befall the soul, Is when it loses faith in God and ...
ALGERNON SIDNEY The day is short, the work is much.
ALGERNON SIDNEY Where liberty is, there is my country.
ALGERNON SIDNEY Wind puffs up empty bladders; opinion, fools.
ALGERNON SIDNEY Everyone sees they cannot well live asunder, nor many together, without some rule to which all must ...
ALGERNON SIDNEY The best Governments of the World have bin composed of Monarchy, Aristocracy, and Democracy.
ALGERNON SIDNEY My unworldliness, even at 21, was abnormal. Not only had I never smoked tobacco nor touched alcohol ...
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD Such as have reason, understanding, or common sense, will, and ought to make use of it in those thin...
ALGERNON SIDNEY Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passio...
ALGERNON SIDNEY I used to tell strange, wild, improbable tales akin to ghost stories, and discovered a taste for spi...
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD Mrs. Bittarcy rustled ominously, holding her peace meanwhile. She feared long words she did not unde...
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD In spite of his exceeding mental perturbation, Simpson struggled hard to detect its nature, and defi...
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD It is the little things that pierce and burn and prick for years to come.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD This is a call to the living,
To those who refuse to make peace with evil,
With the sufferi...
ALGERNON D. BLACK It is, alas, chiefly the evil emotions that are able to leave their photographs on surrounding scene...
ALGERNON H. BLACKWOOD And if thought and emotion can persist in this way so long after the brain that sent them forth has ...
ALGERNON H. BLACKWOOD Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.
CHARLES You should encourage a child to show off. You can say to a child, 'Stop being rude,' 'St...
CHARLES DANCE No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.
CHARLES DICKENS How sweet it is to learn the Savior's love when nobody else loves us! When friends flee, what a ...
CHARLES SPURGEON Cast away your sloth, your lethargy, your coldness, or whatever interferes with your chaste and pure...
CHARLES SPURGEON 'You are no saint,' says the devil. Well, if I am not, I am a sinner, and Jesus Christ came ...
CHARLES SPURGEON None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
CHARLES SPURGEON Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are...
CHARLES SPURGEON A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you...
CHARLES SPURGEON Free will carried many a soul to hell, but never a soul to heaven.
CHARLES SPURGEON Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explai...
CHARLES SAATCHI Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entir...
CHARLES DICKENS In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
CHARLES EAMES We work because it's a chain reaction, each subject leads to the next.
CHARLES EAMES It is not easy to do something good, but it is extremely difficult to do something bad.
CHARLES EAMES Ideas are cheap. Always be passionate about ideas and communicating those ideas and discoveries to o...
CHARLES EAMES To whom does design address itself: to the greatest number, to the specialist of an enlightened matt...
CHARLES EAMES It is almost impossible to reconcile self expression with the creative act.
CHARLES EAMES It makes me feel guilty that anybody should have such a good time doing what they are supposed to do...
CHARLES EAMES The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten y...
CHARLES EAMES Who ever said that pleasure wasn't functional?
CHARLES EAMES Art resides in the quality of doing, process is not magic.
CHARLES EAMES Choose your corner, pick away at it carefully, intensely and to the best of your ability and that wa...
CHARLES EAMES Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what tru...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships.
CHARLES SIMIC Sincerity makes the very least person to be of more value than the most talented hypocrite.
CHARLES SPURGEON Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that&...
CHARLES MINGUS The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have bee...
CHARLES BABBAGE Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, re...
CHARLES BABBAGE The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producin...
CHARLES BABBAGE Telegraphs are machines for conveying information over extensive lines with great rapidity.
CHARLES BABBAGE The public character of every public servant is legitimate subject of discussion, and his fitness or...
CHARLES BABBAGE Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscan...
CHARLES BABBAGE In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to ta...
CHARLES BABBAGE Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
CHARLES BABBAGE That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of...
CHARLES BABBAGE The difference between a tool and a machine is not capable of very precise distinction; nor is it ne...
CHARLES BABBAGE The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual forc...
CHARLES BABBAGE There are few circumstances which so strongly distinguish the philosopher, as the calmness with whic...
CHARLES BABBAGE In mathematics we have long since drawn the rein, and given over a hopeless race.
CHARLES BABBAGE The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almo...
CHARLES BABBAGE The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures.
CHARLES BABBAGE Whenever the work is itself light, it becomes necessary, in order to economize time, to increase the...
CHARLES BABBAGE At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes...
CHARLES BABBAGE A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine i...
CHARLES BABBAGE If there were no bad people, there would be no good lawyers.
CHARLES DICKENS Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is...
CHARLES SPURGEON There is a mystique about psychiatry that people think that you have some kind of a magical lens, yo...
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER I realized that If I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes.
CHARLES LINDBERGH I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
CHARLES V One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to h...
CHARLES STANLEY A Christian has no right being in a fight unless it's a spiritual fight.
CHARLES STANLEY A man can preach no better than he prays.
CHARLES STANLEY An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the...
CHARLES STANLEY The Bible is clear that those who fail to heed the Lord's discipline - whether nations, cities, ...
CHARLES STANLEY Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.
CHARLES STANLEY In our friendships we have to be wise that we choose godly people to be our friends. Somebody might ...
CHARLES STANLEY Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously tr...
CHARLES STANLEY The bottom line in the Christian life is obedience and most people don't even like the word.
CHARLES STANLEY One of Satan's most deceptive and powerful ways of defeating us is to get us to believe a lie. A...
CHARLES STANLEY Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us ...
CHARLES STANLEY Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how...
CHARLES STANLEY What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.
CHARLES SPURGEON You have to believe in a placebo or it won't work, but if it works, it's obviously working i...
CHARLES JENCKS Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory.
RAY CHARLES Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a fami...
CHARLES EASTMAN The Bible tells us that God will meet all our needs. He feeds the birds of the air and clothes the g...
CHARLES STANLEY The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI In the same way the sun never grows weary of shining, nor a stream of flowing, it is God's natur...
CHARLES SPURGEON It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in...
CHARLES DICKENS There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
PRINCE CHARLES We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find t...
CHARLES STANLEY I take big risks, but I'm not reckless about it.
LARRY CHARLES Between calculated risk and reckless decision-making lies the dividing line between profit and loss.
CHARLES DUHIGG The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can...
CHARLES DICKENS I don't actually subscribe to the view that all power corrupts. But absolute power - when secure...
CHARLES KENNEDY There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk.
CHARLES DICKENS Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee...
CHARLES DICKENS There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls, but these are the exac...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI The rule in carving holds good as to criticism; never cut with a knife what you can cut with a spoon...
CHARLES BUXTON Iron hand in a velvet glove.
CHARLES V It takes a real man to make a true confession - a Chocolate Soldier will excuse or cloak his sin.
CHARLES STUDD There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE You can repeat things because it's on a set and there are actors. But if it's a great moment...
LARRY CHARLES I don't want to just add another DVD to the pile. So I think, 'Is this going to have an impa...
LARRY CHARLES I grew up in Brooklyn, New York. I grew up in a very Jewish neighbourhood and thought the whole worl...
LARRY CHARLES There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
CHARLES DICKENS When I hear of an 'equity' in a case like this, I am reminded of a blind man in a dark room ...
CHARLES BOWEN We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist i...
CRAIG CHARLES I think anybody who is racist is an idiot whether they are black or white.
CHARLES BARKLEY There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
CHARLES DICKENS 'Federalism', in the context of political and media usage in Britain, has come to mean the c...
CHARLES KENNEDY I've always resented the force of attraction that traps me here on Planet Earth. It makes me fee...
CHARLES PLATT You ask what my conclusions are, rereading my journals and looking back on World War II from the van...
CHARLES LINDBERGH I would not be on the level did I not confess that I always have believed that the old Browns were a...
CHARLES COMISKEY Success soon palls. The joyous time is when the breeze first strikes your sails, and the waters rust...
CHARLES BUXTON The quicker we get rid of the lobby system the better for all of us. I don't think in this day a...
CHARLES KENNEDY So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream.
CHARLES KINGSLEY