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hands feelings excess
The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived. Charles Caleb Colton
hands class two
Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.
hands sorrow tears
If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you! Charles Dickens
hands feet office
Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
hands library grew
I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries. Charles Stross
hands soul half
I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters. Charles Spurgeon
hands despair rope
Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.
hands soap calling
There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.
hands ignorant used
And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords Alan Watts
violin wells
I started with the classical violin when I was 6, and I guess it went well. Alison Krauss
violin use sometimes
I do use an electric violin. Actually, my regular electric violin, which I sometimes use, is by Ned Steinburger. Aleksey Igudesman
violin way hearing
I can't stand being in Chicago anymore and hearing the Brahms Violin Concerto in the elevator. Because that shows me that when they come to the concert hall they listen to it in the same way. Daniel Barenboim
violin limits use
Violin for me is a great instrument because you can use it as a rhythmical instrument and also as a melodic instrument. ... You can pretty much do everything with the violin. Sometimes I feel classical music limits the violin. David Garrett
violin
CREMONA, n. A high-priced violin made in Connecticut. Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
violin kind fame
Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less. George Eliot
violin instruments humans
…the violin — that most human of all instruments… Louisa May Alcott
violin
I tried to learn the violin for a while. Peter Wright
violin aging dove
The older the violin, the sweeter the music. Larry McMurtry
evening ruins whole
Why let one high C ruin your whole evening? Beverly Sills
evening news gone
The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone. Bernard Goldberg
evening everyday exciting expecting governor interested pleased
We're expecting a very exciting evening with our Governor here. It's not everyday that we have our Governor as our keynote speaker. We're very pleased and very interested in what he has to say.
evening cows odd-thomas
Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded. Dean Koontz
evening
It is better to begin in the evening than not at all. Ashley Judd
evening forest hill path silence touched
Silence on a hill where the path endedand then the forest belowmoving in one long whisperas evening touched the leaves. William Stafford
evening gown lace late mild restraint since
Mild restraint will go a long way with lace. No one has done a floor-length lace evening gown since the late '70s.
evening fast green hill mine shine sun violet
Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down, Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrewn, Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave; And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave!
evening natural given
Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life. Charles Bukowski