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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
restraint hardest hardest-thing
The hardest thing for me is restraint. Alexandra Guarnaschelli
restraint indulgence
restraint equals indulgence Barbara Kingsolver
restraint urged wise
We've urged the Pakistanis to take the statesman-like course, the wise course, and the restraint course. Thomas Pickering
restraint ifs
I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far. Mae West
restraint written
Everything must be free to be written and published without restraint John Stuart Mill
grows ifs
It is good to act as if. It is even better to grow to the point where it is no longer an act.
grows
To boldly grow where no one has groan before. David Hobson
grows terrified
As a society, we've become terrified of failure, but you can't grow without risking it. Bear Grylls
grows increase labor movement resources standard unless words
unless the labor movement grows to increase workers' standard of living, that has got to be our fundamental purpose. We have to put the resources where the words are.
grows ideals
Grow into your ideals so that life cannot rob you of them. Albert Schweitzer
grows picks
We can grow gracefully, or gorgeously. I pick both. Diane Keaton
grows heart
Oh, who could have foretoldThat the heart grows old? William Butler Yeats
grows people
She really grows on people after they get to know her personality. Chris Johnson
grows
This is what you must be like. Grow wherever life puts you down. Ben Okri