“ Most of us fall short much more by omission than by commission. While the world perishes we go our way: purposeless, passionless, day after day. ”
- Peace Pilgrim- Copy
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“ I've heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds With coldness still returning; Alas! the gratitude of men Hath often left me mourning. ”
- William Wordsworth- Copy
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“ Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
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“ Christmas is here: Winds whistle shrill, Icy and chill, Little care we; Little we fear Weather without, Sheltered about The Mahogany Tree. ”
- William Makepeace Thackeray- Copy
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“ Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity, and in cold weather becomes frozen, even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. ”
- Leonardo da Vinci- Copy
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“ The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree, such a hare is madness the youth to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the cripple. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole. ”
- Vicki Baum- Copy
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“ Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold? ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything. ”
- Henry Ward Beecher- Copy
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“ Opinionated writing is always the most difficult… simply because it involves retaining in the cold morning-after crystal of the printed word the burning flow of molten feeling. ”
- Gavin Lyall- Copy
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“ That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ The higher we rise, the more isolated we become; all elevations are cold. ”
- Louis Francois Boufflers- Copy
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“ There is a solitude which each and every one of us has always carried within. More inaccessible than the ice-cold mountains, more profound than the midnight sea: the solitude of self. ”
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton- Copy
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“ To do anything in this world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and shrinking of the cold and danger, but jump in, and scramble through as well as we can. ”
- Sydney Smith- Copy
- 2.7K
“ Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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“ Communism has served us ill in having us swap a living brotherhood for what looks to have the features of the coldest of all chill abstractions. ”
- Aime Cesaire- Copy
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“ If wild my breast and sore my pride, I bask in dreams of suicide, If cool my heart and high my head I think "How lucky are the dead. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
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“ Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide-bound hearts. ”
- Lenora Mattingly Weber- Copy
- 2.1K
“ Iron rusts from disuse, stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigors of the mind. ”
- George Allen- Copy
- 52
“ We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it — and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again — and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 2.9K
“ Time for the weather report. It's cold out folks. Bonecrushing cold. The kind of cold which will wrench the spirit out of a young man, or forge it into steel. ”
- Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider- Copy
- 1.5K
“ I never have been sick. I don't even know what it means to be sick. I hear other players say they have a cold. I just don't know what it would feel like to have a cold - I never had one. ”
- Honus Wagner- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near. ”
- Alexander Pope- Copy
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