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Senseless is the breast and cold _x000D__x000D_Which relenting love would fold;_x000D__x000D_Bloodless are the veins and chill _x000D__x000D_Which the pulse of pain did fill; _x000D__x000D_Every little living nerve _x000D__x000D_That from bitter words did swerve _x000D__x000D_Round the tortur'd lips and brow, _x000D__x000D_Are like sapless leaflets now _x000D__x000D_Frozen upon December's bough.

Christmas is a time of little time._x000D__x000D_How we get there is a mystery._x000D__x000D_Racing madly mall-to-mall, we climb_x000D__x000D_Into fields of sunlit harmony._x000D__x000D_Shopping, cooking, clearing walks and yards,_x000D__x000D_Trimming house and tree while working, too;_x000D__x000D_Making phone calls, wrapping, writing cards,_x000D__x000D_As all worn out we do what we must do_x000D__x000D_So that this day of joy might joy renew.

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

So long as little children are allowed to suffer, there is no true love in this world.

Once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices.... Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end.

A little-known truth: Every aspect of the world is fundamentally unpredictable. Computer scientists have long since proved this.

There is only one thing about which I am certain, and this is that there is very little about which one can be certain

Faith is not a refuge from reality. It is a demand that we face reality ... The true subject matter of religion is not our own little souls, but the Eternal God and His whole mysterious purpose, and our solemn responsibility to Him.

To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when if it would but clothe itself with a few carnal advantages, how apparent it is to them! They can see it through a little cranny.

Meanwhile, little people like you and me, if our prayers are sometimes granted, beyond all hope and probability, had better not draw hasty conclusions to our own advantage. If we were stronger, we might be less tenderly treated. If we were braver, we might be sent, with far less help, to defend far more desperate posts in the great battle.

It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.

I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself.

I, I don't think anybody's continually happy, uh, except idiots, you know. You know, you have to have little moments of depression.

Our girls have learned that sweat is sexy, brawn is beautiful and a little dirt never hurt anyone.

I didn't tell him I was a virgin, just that I hadn’t done it “that much.” It hurt a little more than I'd expected but in a different way, and he was nervous too and he never came. Afterwards we lay there and talked, and I could tell he was a really nice person. I commended myself for making a healthy, albeit hasty, partner choice. I really couldn't wait to tell my mom.

One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation.' . . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.

He is not of us who is not affectionate to the little ones, and does not respect the old; and he is not of us, who does not order which is lawful, and prohibits that which is unlawful.

It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.

I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is "needed" before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible.

...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for securing liberty for a substantial share of the world's population and defending it for most of the rest.

I have spent some months in England, have seen an awful lot and learned little. England is not a land of science, there is only a widely practised dilettantism, the chemists are ashamed to call themselves chemists because the pharmacists, who are despised, have assumed this name.