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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
voyages bitter tire
Amer savoir, celui qu'on tire du voyage! Bitter is the knowledge gained in travelling. Charles Baudelaire
voyages ships doe
The result of the voyage does not depend on the speed of the ship, but on whether or not it keeps a true course. Albert Schweitzer
voyages speakers
A talk is a voyage. It must be charted. The speaker who starts nowhere, usually gets there. Dale Carnegie
voyages accomplished
Voyages are accomplished inwardly. Henry Miller
voyages made wells
My voyage was never a well-conceived plan, nor will it ever be. I have made it up as I went along. Jimmy Buffett
voyages companionship pleasure
A voyage without companionship, that is to say without conversation, is one of the saddest pleasures of life. Madame de Stael
voyages captains
Oh captain, my captain, bon voyage. Ken Dryden
voyages tall taciturn
Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage. Pablo Neruda
voyages ships lines
The voyage of the best ship is a zigzag line of a hundred tacks. Ralph Waldo Emerson
permit work
Because of the new regulations, our permit for doing this work expires at the end of the year. Patricia Miller
permitted san
I'd always wanted to live in San Francisco, and my circumstances never permitted it. I'm so happy I made the move.
permits
I think we'll see permits down in February, but I thought we'd see them down in January.
permit picture presence trouble welsh-musician
Television, they say, will permit a person to be entertained at home, without the effort of going to a picture house, without the trouble of booking seats, without the presence of other people. Ivor Novello
permit
We need the permit on the sign, it's law.
permit
It does not have anything in it to permit us to supplement, modify or amend.
permit third
It's a third permit we'd need to obtain.
permits police sponsors stuff three
There's a lot of behind-the-scenes stuff that has to go on. There's the permits and the sponsors and the police that's a lot to get done in three weeks.
permit violation waiting
They're in violation and we're waiting to see a permit application.