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“It often astonishes me that I did not see the importance of meditation upon Scripture earlier in my Christian life. As the outward man is not fit for work for any length of time unless he eats, so it is with the inner man. What is the food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God -not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water runs through a pipe. No, we must consider what we read, ponder over it, and apply it to our hearts.”
“It often comes into my head That we may dream when we are dead, But I am far from sure we do. O that it were so! then my rest Would be indeed among the blest; I should for ever dream of you.”
Source: Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)
“It often falls, in course of common life, that right long time is overborne of wrong.”
Source: The Works of Mr. Edmund Spenser
“It often feels like a tremendous amount of work is required to get an idea moving forward, like pushing a train uphill. But at a certain point, the thing takes on its own momentum, and takes unexpected turns. So it's that feeling of holding on, rather than pushing it, that is the most exciting thing. It's that need to occasionally bounce off the walls, letting anything happen for any reason, and having nothing to guide you that is the joy.”
“It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.”
Source: The Book of Eleven: An Itemized Collection of Brain Lint
“It often felt like God had merely let me into a foyer where I could hear others playing my note in another room, with no way to get to the music. And that's really what I wanted to do. I wanted to play my note. I wanted to do the thing that made me feel alive.”
Source: Angry Conversations with God: A Snarky but Authentic Spiritual Memoir
“It often gives a lady a pleasure to giver her lover a pang”
Source: Hints for Lovers
“It often happens that a player is so fond of his advantageous position that he is reluctant to transpose to a winning endgame.”
“It often happens that I have an idea, but then I try to fill in the intermediate steps and find they don't work, so I have to give it up.”
“It often happens that I wake up at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the Pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the Pope.”
“It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.”
“It often happens that opposite emotions trigger similar reactions in the human body, for crying occurs both in moments of deep despair and great joy. Only observant poets know the difference, for despair paints the eyes red and causes swelling, while joy makes them glitter like emeralds under the brightest of suns.”
Source: Codex Hyperboreanus
“It often happens that people come to believe in their own fictions.”
Source: Anthony Eden
“It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.”
“It often happens that the mind of a person who is learning a new science has to pass through all the phases which the science itself has exhibited in its historical evolution.”
“It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book.”
Source: Winter Evenings: Or Lucubrations on Life and Letters. ...
“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style.”
Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
“It often happens that the universal belief of one age of mankind — a belief from which no one was, nor without an extraordinary effort of genius and courage, could at that time be free — becomes to a subsequent age so palpable an absurdity, that the only difficulty then is to imagine how such a thing can ever have appeared credible.”
“It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.”
Source: Moon Palace
“It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.”
“It often happens that those are the best people whose characters have been most injured by slanderers: as we usually find that to be the sweetest fruit which the birds have been picking at.”
Source: A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published
“It often happens that those of whom we speak least on earth are best known in heaven.”
Source: The Holy Court ... The third edition. L.P.
“It often happens that those who spend their time giving light to others, remain in darkness themselves.”
“It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.”
Source: Essays of Schopenhauer: Top Essays
“It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet that God does not hear us, but permits the temptation to continue troubling us. In such a case, let us understand that God permits even this for our greater good.”
“It often happens that we treat pain as if it were the only real thing, or at least the most real thing: when it comes round, everything before it, around it, and, perhaps, in front of it, tends to seem fleeting, delusional.”
Source: Bluets
“It often happens that what stares us in the face is the most difficult to perceive.”
“It often happens that when couples get their relationship to God straightened out, their relationships with one another begin to straighten out as well.”
“It often happens that when you look at familiar things through someone else's eyes you see them as you have never seen them before.”
Source: It's All Greek to Me!: A Tale of a Mad Dog and an Englishman, Ruins, Retsina--and Real Greeks
“It often happens that, if a lie be believed only for an hour, it has done its work, and there is no further occasion for it.”
Source: The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author
“It often happens to children - and sometimes to gardeners - that they are given gifts of value of which they do not perceive until much later.”
“It often happens: you're talking with someone, and you kind of like what he's saying, and there seems to be some truth in it. Then suddenly you notice he's wearing an old tee shirt, his slippers are darned, his trousers are patched at the knee and the furniture in his room is worn and cheap. You look a bit closer and all around you you see signs of humiliating poverty you didn't notice before, and you realise everything your interlocutor has done and thought in his life has failed to lead him to that single victory that you wanted so badly on that distant May morning when you gritted your teeth and promised yourself you wouldn't lose, even though it still wasn't really very clear just who you were playing with and what the game was. And although it hasn't become the slightest bit clearer since then, you immediately lose interest in what he's saying. You want to say goodbye to him in some pleasant fashion, get away as quickly as possible and finally get down to business.”
Source: Generation "П". Повести. Рассказы
“It often happens, that misery will follow a marriage when the dowry is too large.”
“It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes.”
Source: On Starlit Seas
“It often is a terrible insult to some families if one of the kids turns out to be an artist and that's one way to really shake up the family if you haven't got nerve enough to turn into a homosexual.”
“It often is better to ask an ancient Hebrew goatherd, instead of a so-called expert like myself, about the meaning of a particular, biblical story.”
“It often looks like an actor's had a big break out of nowhere, but in reality, they've been working their way up, little by little, for a while.”
“It often occurs that pride and selfishness are muddled with strength and independence. They are neither equal nor similar; in fact, they are polar opposites. A coward may be so cowardly that he masks his weakness with some false personification of power. He is afraid to love and to be loved because love tends to strip bare all emotional barricades. Without love, strength and independence are prone to losing every bit of their worth; they become nothing more than a fearful, intimidated, empty tent lost somewhere in the desert of self.”
Source: Killosophy
“It often occurs to me that if, against all odds, there is a judgmental God and heaven, it will come to pass that when the pearly gates open, those who had the valor to think for themselves will be escorted to the head of the line, garlanded, and given their own personal audience.”
“It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned.”
Source: Tarry Flynn
“It often puzzles me when people think that matters connected with sex ought to be suppressed. Sex itself cannot be suppressed, and the efforts to do it, it seems to me, result in greater damage than it can do itself. After all, it was not an invention of man, but of God.”
“It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.”
“It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle.”
“It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.”
“It often requires more strength and judgment to resist than to embrace an opportunity. It is better to do nothing than to do other than well.”
“It often runs in families," she remarked: "just as a love for pastry does.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Lewis Carroll (Illustrated)
“It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders in loyal acquiescence.”
Source: Healology
“It often seems as though the silent, humble servant is secretly wiser and more discerning than the haughty master; yet through dutiful (and sometimes insecure) surrender he continues to serve and carry out petty orders in loyal acquiesce.”
Source: Healology
“It often seems easier not to move on; even the muck and mire in which we're stuck seems less fearful and less challenging than the unknown path ahead. Some people use faith as a reason to remain stuck. They often say, "I have faith, so I'm waiting." But faith is not complacent; faith is action. You don't have faith and wait. When you have faith, you move. Complacency actually shows lack of faith. When it's time to move in a new direction in order to progress, the right people will come to us.”
“It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: “With his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches the gaps in the structure of the universe.”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud