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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
sometimes failing should
Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes. Charles Stewart Parnell
sometimes enjoy my-own
I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes. Dave Chappelle
sometimes humans persons
You're not a bad person. But you sometimes do bad things. You know what that makes you? Human. David D. Burns
sometimes wonder sometimes-i-wonder
Sometimes, I wonder what I'm doing here. Cesar Romero
sometimes said shows
I didn’t just show up for work, as has sometimes been said. I also showed up to work. Cal Ripken, Jr.
sometimes coastal
I live a bi-coastal and sometimes tri-coastal life. Bryan Batt
sometimes readership seems
I'm sometimes sort of in touch with the readership, and they seem to have perceptive questions, for the most part. Bryan Lee O'Malley
sometimes splendid wells
Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all. Catherynne M. Valente
sometimes figures easier
Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out Casey Stengel
poor
Suffice it to say, I'm not poor. August Wilson
poor backgrounds harder
If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are. Carol Vorderman
poorly pressure stage
We were awful, we started poorly and never got in the game. At no stage did we put any pressure on the French. Andy Robinson
poor starters finishers
I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher. Alan Kay
poor
What have they done to you, my poor child? Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
poor-richard reproach
The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it. Benjamin Franklin
poor
It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn't understand. Anton Chekhov
poor sad tired
Too tired to yawn, too tired to sleep: / Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him. Walter Mare
poor poverty-and-the-poor
The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor. George Moore