No man's really any good till he knows how bad he is, or might be; till he's realised exactly how much right he has to all this snobbery, and sneering, and talking about 'criminals,' as if they were apes in a forest ten thousand miles away; till he's got rid of all the dirty self-deception of talking about low types and deficient skulls; till he's squeezed out of his soul the last drop of the oil of the Pharisees; till his only hope is somehow or other to have captured one criminal, and kept him safe and sane under his own hat.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good. C.S. LEWIS The first one I was real close. You've got to give Henry a lot of credit. He fought it all the way d... KEENAN MCCARDELL No man knows till he has suffered from the night how sweet and dear to his heart and eye the morning... BRAM STOKER whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him til... MARK TWAIN Man is a fallen star till he is right with heaven: he is out of order with himself and all around hi... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Not till your thoughts cease all their branching here and there, not till you abandon all thoughts o... HUANG PO Man takes root at his feet, and at best, he is no more than a potted plant in his house or carriage ... JOHN BURROUGHS At what age did Warren Buffett come into philanthropy? At 76. He gave a very good reason. He said hi... SHIV NADAR You shall easily know a vainglorious man: his own commendation rumbles within him till he hath bulk... THOMAS ADAMS Remember the turtle -- He never makes any progress till he sticks his neck out. SOURCE UNKNOWN All our talents increase in the using, and every faculty, both good and bad, strengthens by exercise... ANNE BRONTE Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern. WILLIAM BLAKE You know Sven? The man who takes care of the gym?' he asked. He waited till he got a nod from Nichol... J.D. SALINGER A scientist knows more & more about less & less till he knows everything about nothing while a philo... UNKNOWN And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I com... BIBLE And wisest he in this whole wide land
Of hoarding till bent and gray;
For all you can hold in ... JOAQUIN MILLER (PSEUDONYM OF CINCINNATUS HINER MILLER) If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. For man... BLAKE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. He calls his wish, it comes; he sends it back,
And says he called another; that arrives,
Meets... EDWARD YOUNG As he cobbled and hammered from morning till dark,
With the footgear to mend on his knees,
Sti... OSCAR H. HARPEL No one truth is rightly held till it is clearly conceived and stated, and no single truth is adequat... A. A. HODGE Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky. SOLON No one knows what he can do till he tries. SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS) No one knows what he can do till he tries. PUBLILIUS SYRUS No one knows what he can do till he tries PUBLILIUS SYRUS His overthrow heaped happiness upon him;
For then, and not till then, he felt himself,
And fou... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man... WILLIAM BLAKE A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drop... JOHNNY BENCH He could not escape and was badly beaten till he lost his consciousness. GEORGE NINAN What man would be wise, let him drink of the river
That bears on his bosom the record of time;
... JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY, LL.D. And draw not near to the property of the orphan except in a goodly way till he attains his maturity ... QURAN Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from the love of the thing he tells... C.S. LEWIS Morse conquered his electrical difficulties although he was only a painter, and I don't intend t... ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he's only trying on one face after another till he find... LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH He kept the body intact and lived in isolation till he died Saturday ASHOK KUMAR If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: infinite. For ... WILLIAM BLAKE The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well. GEORGE W. THORNBURY You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself floweth in your veins, till you are clothed wi... THOMAS TRAHERNE The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, Let no one be called happy till his death; to which ... ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well. PROVERB He that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well PROVERB For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass f... BIBLE The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then. THOMAS CARLYLE So he sighed and pined and ogled,And his passion boiled and bubbled,Till he blew his silly brains ou... WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY He (life) got to his feet with a sudden jerk, collected his blanket and then darted away... SUMAN POKHREL And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet,... ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Now this is the ground and original of the Spirit of Love in the creature, it is and must be a will ... WILLIAM LAW The wise man will follow a star, low and large and fierce in the heavens, but the nearer he comes to... G.K. CHESTERTON My son is my son till he have got him a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life... THOMAS FULLER It is at Bombay that the smell of All Asia boards the ship miles off shore, and holds the passenger'... RUDYARD KIPLING It cannot be precisely known how any thing is good or bad, till it is precisely known what it is. JAMES MILL No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no... HERBERT SPENCER No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no... HERBERT SPENCER [Senior Rob Hudson sustained his good form with a 3-under par 33 to earn medalist honors for the var... ALEX ADAMS God was happy without humans before they were made; he would have continued happy had he simply dest... J.I. PACKER If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wa... SAMUEL BUTLER It was a cold morning, and he shivered a little; but he had been taught by his uncle that his prayer... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM When a man forgets his ideals, he may hope for happiness, but not till then JOHN OLIVER HOBBES The three phases of a persons life: Morning phase;From birth till 30yrs.Afternoon phase;From 31yrs t... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I've got a friend who is a lion tamer. He used to be a school teacher till he lost his nerve. LES DAWSON A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity till he has tasted adversity MUSLIH-UDDIN SADI That enlightened person got a shock of his life, when the God asked him to go to another planet and ... DR HITESH C SHETH There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become king... PLATO A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by ... H. P. LOVECRAFT NO ONE KNOWS THE REAL VALUE OF SUCCESS TILL THEY TASTE FAILURE IRSHAD BAIG The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;'... ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING He waits till the right moment. ROBERTO GONZALEZ Till now man has been up against Nature; from now on he will be up against his own nature. DENNIS GABOR His fruit is but such as grows upon the stony ground, but stay till the sun of persecution arise and... GEORGE GILLESPIE Beloved, till life can charm no more; And mourned, till Pity's self be dead. WILLIAM COLLINS He was to them like the poet of a new school who takes his contemporaries by storm; who is not reall... THOMAS HARDY Why will no man confess his faults? Because he continues to
indulge in them; a man cannot tell his... UNKNOWN At this good Tray grew very red, / And growled and bit him till he bled. HEINRICH HOFFMAN He has a lot of confidence, and we have confidence in him. He's our quarterback. We're going to ride... CEDRIC BOZEMAN He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter,
or as a fool to the correction of ... BIBLE The houses he makes last till doomsday. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen an... ROBERT FROST Our disputants put me in mind of the cuttlefish that, when he is unable to extricate himself, blacke... JOSEPH ADDISON By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in... GEORGE HERBERT Every man thinketh he is rich enough in grace, till he take out his purse, and... then he findeth it... SAMUEL RUTHERFORD Spirituality is nothing but knowing the meaning of your own existence in this world. You can practic... RAKESH RAMAN The Lord had a job for me, but I had so much to do,
I said, "You get somebody else--or wait till I... PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR When a herd of cattle see a strange object, they are not satisfied till each one has sniffed it; and... JOHN BURROUGHS The astronomer is, in some measure, independent of his fellow astronomer; he can wait in his observa... JAMES POLLARD ESPY The world has enough scope of hope till people, even in small numbers, do not stop to mean exactly t... ANUJ SOMANY Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people oug... THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY It was his home now. But it could not be his home till he had gone from it and returned to it. Now h... G.K. CHESTERTON Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till the... THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY Many politicians lay it down as a self-evident proposition, that no people ought to be free till the... LORD MACAULAY I told the salesman I had to leave, but he kept talking. Then he would say, 'Don't go. I'll be right... JULES PAPP Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor ... ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor... ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Let no one till his death
Be called unhappy. Measure not the work
Until the day's out and the... ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING God is always on time, it may not be the time you are expecting, but hes on time. Just like he said ... ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE If I were living in France, I'd vote for Jacques Chirac, despite the fact that he can't seem... PIM FORTUYN Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE No hero is immortal till he dies W. H. AUDEN Andrew Jenkins was the big one. He was down by a lot. But he stuck with it, kept plugging away, play... JACK KOSMICKI Most people suspend their judgment till somebody else has expressed his own and then they repeat it. ERNEST DIMNET
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CHESTERTON As for the general view that the Church was discredited by the War—they might as well say that the... G.K. CHESTERTON The paradise of my fancy is one where pigs have wings G.K. CHESTERTON ..."vers libre," (free verse) or nine-tenths of it, is not a new metre any more than sleeping in a d... G.K. CHESTERTON I do not deny, but strongly affirm, the right of the State to interfere to cure a great evil. I say ... G.K. CHESTERTON To complain that I could only be married once was like complaining that I had only been born once. G.K. CHESTERTON If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ... G.K. CHESTERTON It is quite certain that the skirt means female dignity, not female submission; it can be proved by ... G.K. CHESTERTON On the third day the friends of Christ coming at daybreak to the place found the grave empty and the... G.K. CHESTERTON The center of every man's existence is a dream. Death, disease, insanity, are merely material accide... G.K. CHESTERTON I had tried to be happy by telling myself that man is an animal, like any other which sought its mea... G.K. CHESTERTON [Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run... G.K. CHESTERTON That a good man may have his back to the wall is no more than we knew already, but that God could ha... G.K. CHESTERTON If Innocent is happy, it is because he is innocent. If he can defy the conventions, it is just becau... G.K. CHESTERTON There is something sinister about putting a leprechaun in a workhouse. The only solid comfort is tha... G.K. CHESTERTON Man may behold what ugliness he likes if he is sure that he will not worship it; but there are some ... G.K. CHESTERTON If we are calm," replied the policeman, "it is the calm of organized resistance." "Eh?" said Sy... G.K. CHESTERTON Do not be proud of the fact that your grandmother was shocked at something which your are accustomed... G.K. CHESTERTON As long as the vision of heaven is always changing, the vision of earth will be exactly the same. No... G.K. CHESTERTON I mean that we here are on the wrong side of the tapestry,' answered Father Brown. 'The things that ... G.K. CHESTERTON How you think when you lose determines how long it will be until you win. G.K. CHESTERTON The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens... G.K. CHESTERTON No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for edu... G.K. CHESTERTON A man's minor actions and arrangements ought to be free, flexible, creative; the things that should ... G.K. CHESTERTON A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A mode... G.K. CHESTERTON These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own. G.K. CHESTERTON There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people. G.K. CHESTERTON Men invent new ideals because they dare not attempt old ideals. They look forward with enthusiasm, b... G.K. CHESTERTON There is a limit to human charity," said Lady Outram, trembling all over. "There is," sai... G.K. CHESTERTON He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of c... G.K. CHESTERTON Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being ... G.K. CHESTERTON We do not admire, we hardly excuse, the fanatic who wrecks this world for love of the other. But wha... G.K. CHESTERTON Dear Sir: Regarding your article 'What's Wrong with the World?' I am. Yours truly, G.K. CHESTERTON There are those who hate Christianity and call their hatred an all-embracing love for all religions. G.K. CHESTERTON We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practica... G.K. CHESTERTON He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's wha... G.K. CHESTERTON If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. G.K. CHESTERTON The first two facts which a healthy boy or girl feels about sex are these: first that it is beautifu... G.K. CHESTERTON I regard golf as an expensive way of playing marbles. G.K. CHESTERTON My country, right or wrong,” is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperat... G.K. CHESTERTON The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid. G.K. CHESTERTON Can you not see, […] that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but th... G.K. CHESTERTON the things common to all men are more important than the things peculiar to any men. Ordinary things... G.K. CHESTERTON