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4th-of-july enemy forgiving
Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him. Benjamin Franklin
4th-of-july people small-packages
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages. Benjamin Franklin
4th-of-july estates trade
He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate. Benjamin Franklin
4th-of-july thee shops
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. Benjamin Franklin
4th-of-july sea tyrants
Moses lifting up his wand, and dividing the Red Sea, and Pharaoh in his chariot overwhelmed with the waters. This motto: "Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." Benjamin Franklin
4th-of-july virtue ill
He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue. Benjamin Franklin
4th-of-july long wish
Wish not so much to live long as to live well. Benjamin Franklin
4th-of-july liberty wealth
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power. Benjamin Franklin
4th-of-july noses wipe
Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose. Benjamin Franklin
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