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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
eden victory example
We have not the innocence of Eden; but by God's help and Christ's example we may have the victory of Gethsemane. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
eden arrogance world
This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so. Dean Koontz
eden failure ultimately
I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks. Ann Voskamp
eden patterns divine
Eden is a conversation. It is the conversation of the human with the Divine. And it is the reverberations of that conversation that create a sense of place. It is not a thing, Eden, but a pattern of relationships, made visible in conversation. To live in Eden is to live in the midst of good relations, of just relations scrupulously attended to, imaginatively maintained through time. Altogether we call this beauty. Barry Lopez
eden forever fit
Even if we should find another Eden, we would not be fit to enjoy it perfectly nor stay in it forever. Henry Van Dyke
eden world inches
I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect. Joni Mitchell
eden heaven devil
We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
eden garden people
A lot of people have no idea that right now Y.A. (young adult). is the Garden of Eden of literature. Sherman Alexie
eden fable garden gigantic lie
There was never such a gigantic lie told as the fable of the Garden of Eden Henry Ward Beecher
soldier firsts said
He recalls what that first German soldier said to his major: No God-not yours or mine-approves of what you're doing. Chris Bohjalian
soldier revolution empty
We are working for a revolution. If we do not start it by improving the life of the soldiers, all slogans of reforming and improving society are but empty words. Chiang Kai-shek
soldier united-states proud
The Indians were well mounted and felt proud and elated because they had been made United States soldiers. Buffalo Bill
soldier devil may
Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil. Cal Thomas
soldier looks flamingos
He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo. Kurt Vonnegut
soldier liberty borders
When goods do not cross borders, soldiers will. Frederic Bastiat
soldier green stories
When I did A Soldier's Story, I was very young and green and thought I knew everything-now I know I know everything! Denzel Washington
soldier conventions obsolete
If we say the Geneva Convention is obsolete, then what do others who have our soldiers say? Charles Schumer
soldier firsts etc
...commerce, which is mistakenly classified among the productive forms of work, ought to be ranked first among the parasitical professions like those of monk, soldier, lawyer etc. Charles Fourier