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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. Charles Caleb Colton
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. Charles Dickens
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. Charles Spurgeon
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. Charles Spurgeon
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
pigs giving mind
If a pig could give his mind to anything, he would not be a pig. Charles Dickens
pigs oysters turkeys
Heaped on the floor were turkeys, geese, game, poultry, brawn, great joints of meat, sucking pigs, long wreaths of sausages, mince-pies, plum-puddings, bartrels of oysters, re-hot chestnuts, cherry-cheeked apples, juicy oranges, luscious pears, immense twelfth-cakes, and seething bowls of punch that made the chamber dim with their delicious steam. Charles Dickens
pigs healthcare guinea
The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves. Camille Paglia
pigs people trying
Just watch. Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. When you try to take it too far, people turn the other way. I'm just telling you, when you've got a good thing and you get greedy, it always, always, always, always, always turns on you. That's rule No. 1 of business. Mark Cuban
pigs bulls rooms
Television series are like the stock market. There's room for bears and bulls but no room for pigs. Bob Newhart
pigs dancing choices
Given a choice between dancing pigs and security, users will pick dancing pigs every time. Edward Felten
pigs owl lovely
And they brought an Owl, and a useful Cart, And a pound of Rice, and a CranberryTart, And a hive of silvery Bees. And they brought a Pig, and some green Jack-daws, And a lovely Monkey with lollipop paws, and forty Bottles of Ring-Bo-Ree, And no end of Stilton Cheese. Edward Lear
pigs lucky concrete
I'm quite lucky, because I've got a small, decorative concrete pig. Bill Bailey
pigs people watches
Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct. Beth Henley
tails influence torpedoes
The head of dullness, unlike the tail of the torpedo, loses nothing of the benumbing and lethargizing influence by reiterated discharges. Charles Caleb Colton
tails found lodges
I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter. Buffalo Bill
tails legs want
I work with musicians whose opinions I respect and if they don't like something they don't hold back. They'll say, 'That really sucks' and 'You've lost it' and 'You're no good anymore.' And I crawl away with my tail between my legs and I fear that kind of ridicule, but I want them to like the music I'm bringing to them. Billy Joel
tails looks rabbits
This is a fierce bad rabbit; look at his savage whiskers, and his claws and his turned-up tail. Beatrix Potter
tails firsts coincidence
First time it's a stranger. Second time its just a coincidence. Third time it's a tail Ally Carter
tails cute-winnie-the-pooh winni-the-pooh
It's not much of a tail, but I'm sort of attached to it. A. A. Milne
tails accidents bites
Go slowly, so that you do not bite your tail by accident. Christopher Paolini
tails speak
Speak of a wolf and you see his tail! Fyodor Dostoevsky
tails given
He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies. George Orwell