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“There is no sound basis upon which it may be assumed that all poor men are godly and all rich men are evil, no more than it could be assumed that all rich men are good and all poor men are bad.”

Men May Evil Sound Poor Rich Bases Assumption Bad Ass Godly Rich Man Poor Man

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“There is a saying that no man has tasted the full flavour of life until he has known poverty, love and war. The justness of this reflection commends it to the lover of condensed philosophy. The three conditions embrace about all there is in life worth knowing. A surface thinker might deem that wealth should be added to the list. Not so. When a poor man finds a long-hidden quarter-dollar that has slipped through a rip into his vest lining, he sounds the pleasure of life with a deeper plummet than any millionaire can hope to cast.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of O. Henry (Illustrated)

“The poor man who takes property by force is called a thief, but the creditor who can by legislation make a debtor pay a dollar twice as large as he borrowed is lauded as the friend of a sound currency. The man who wants the people to destroy the Government is an anarchist, but the man who wants the Government to destroy the people is a patriot.”

Source: The First Battle: A Story of the Campaign of 1896

“Fishes do not roar; they cannot express any sound of suffering; and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer, more than it is convenient for him to fancy. Now it is a poor sport that depends for its existence on the want of a voice in the sufferer, and of imagination in the sportsman.”

Thinking Want Suffering Sports Sound Voice Imagination Poor Existence Depends Fishes Fancy Convenient Sufferers Sportsman Anglers

Book:Leigh Hunt's London Journal

Source: Leigh Hunt's London Journal

“I know of nothing more terrible than the poor creatures who have learned too much. Instead of the sound powerful judgement which would probably have grown up if they had learned nothing, their thoughts creep timidly and hypnotically after words, principles and formulae, constantly by the same paths. What they have acquired is a spider's web of thoughts too weak to furnish sure supports, but complicated enough to provide confusion.”

Ifs Knows Enough Sound Poor Powerful Principles Support Path Too Much Terrible Creatures Weak Complicated Confusion Judgement Spiders Creeps

Book:Popular Scientific Lectures

Source: Popular Scientific Lectures

“But the sound of water escaping from mill-dams, &c., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork, I love such things. Shakespeare could make everything poetical; he tells us of poor Tom's haunts among "sheep cotes and mills." As long as I do paint, I shall never cease to paint such places. They have always been my delight.”

Long Sound Water Poor Paint Delight Cease Posts Sheep Toms Rotten Escaping Mills Dams Sound Of Water

Author:John Constable

“Fear looks both ways but still refuses to cross; fear looks twice and still doesn't leap. ... Fear usually arrives late, inevitably leaves early, and ends up never going out of town at all. Fear is the phantom hand on the back of the neck and the sound of a door opening downstairs when no one is coming home. ... Fear grows poor because it watches others gain wealth but cannot enter the fray; fear grows sick because it eats away at heath even as it fears its diminishment; fear grows old watching others live in ways that seem to threaten-but in reality only enhance-life.”

Way Looks Stills Ends Home Hands Reality Seems Grows Fear Sound Wealth Poor Watches Doors Late Gains Crosses Sick Towns Refuse Opening Necks Coming Home Leap Going Out Phantoms Fray

Author:Gina Barreca

“The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor's renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.”

May Play Order Language Sound Poor Music Musician Notes Neighbor Tone Strings Mastery Conventional Norm Violin Intervals Rendering Violinist Discrete

Author:Willard Van Orman Quine

“I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.”

Mind Together America Spirit Sound Prayer Poor Revolution Rebel Fasting Deluded Sound Mind Prayer And Fasting

Book:The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.

Source: The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.