Quotations Page 'C'

Nations like individuals, live and die; but civilization survives.

- Mazzim -

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A sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.

- Emerson -

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The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

- Hare -

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Certainly this is a duty, not a sin."Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness."

- John wesley, Sermon XCII on Dress -

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Beauty commonly produes love, but cleanliness preserves it.

- Addison -

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Beauty will fade and perish, but personal cleanliness is practically undying, for it can be renewed whenever it discovers symptoms of decay.

-W.S.Gilbert, The Sorcerer -

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God loveth the clean.

- The Koran -

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And if the mind will clear conception glow,The willing words in just expression flow.

- P.Frencies Horace, Art of poetry -

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As meekness moderates anger, so clemency moderates punishment.

- Stretch -

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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

- Carlyle -

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Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever.

- Charles Kingsley.a Farewell -

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The clothes make the man.

- Latin Proverb -

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They just woreEnough for modesty no more.

- A Buchanan, White Rose and Red -

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Clouds are hill in vapour, hills are clouds in stone - a phantasy is time's dream.

- Tagore, Fireflies -

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Those playful fancies of the mighty sky.

- Albert Smith -

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The more the fire is covered up the more it burns.

- Ovid, Metam -

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The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

- Ruskin, Stones of Venice -

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Colours speak all languages.

- Addison, The Spectator -

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Light finds her treasure of colours through the antagonism of clouds.

- Tagore, Fireflies -

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