Wherefore the first thing man has to learn is truth concerning the first human question, Where am I?

What a curious thing life was.

"Yes, plenty of other thing change, have their day and cease to be, but the little village keeps its end up and sees thingsand mencome and go, flare up, flicker and fizzle out.

what an odd thing money is; and how it seems able to do everything!"

"When the 'superior man' regards righteousness as the thing material, gives operation to it according to the Rules of Propriety, lets it issue in humility, and become complete in sinceritythere indeed is your superior man!

Each wonted thing doth grow So altered, that I wander to and fro, Bewildered by the most familiar sight, And feel like one who rouses in the night From dream of ecstasy, and cannot know At first if he be sleeping or awake, My foolish heart so foolish for thy sake Hath grown, dear one!

Prudence in council, daring in action, tenacity in purpose, courage in defeat, moderation in victory, in all things faith, and we shall win.

A shocking thing hunger is, isn't it, Mr. Nickleby?" "Very shocking, sir," said Nicholas.

what a wonderful thing love is!

Truly such a thing hath brought thee sore thumps this day.

The poet should deal with love, not as a thing base and susceptible of abuse, but as an influence capable of the most beneficent results in the uplifting of man's nature.

"God has made Ugly Things wi' death in their mouths, Miss Darlin', an' He knows what they're for.

She was always talking to them about the "sleeping-sickness" and things o' that kind.

She knew as well as she knew anything that in the natural evolution of things marriage and motherhood should have been the big thing in her life.

Yet if it be, as I presume it is, There's but one thing offends both her and me;

The influence of half-breeds was a bad thing fer civilization.

Remember, I am as poor as you are now; you may look me in the face and call me your equal, if you will, or your inferior; I shall not deny it.' 'Pardon me, sir,' answered Tregarva; 'but I never felt what a real substantial thing rank is, as I have since this sad misfortune of yours.'

Tellin the thing jest as it is, there's more flummy-diddles and mushroon attachments to a woman's toggery nowadays than there is honest men in Wall street.

Good thing papa got meKitty would killed me when she went to spin next week.

Heavn wakes with all his Eyes, Whom to behold but thee, Natures Desire, In whose sight all things joy, with Ravishment, Attracted by thy Beauty still to gaze!

What aukard, fond, conceited thing art thou?

Thing art thou? (Recognises her.)

But, in two or three cases, little snatches of conversation, uttered by them as they went by, plainly told that, so far as the speakers went, it was so; and, at last, a little thing befell, which, I am sure, represented the condition of many a thousand more in Lancashire just now.

An' ez to readin', he never did take no interest in learnin' how to read out'n them school-readers, which he declares don't no more'n git a person interested in one thing befo' they start on another, an' maybe start that in the middle.

I know, as none can know until he has seen it at close quarters, what a thing war is as it is fought to-day.