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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. 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
rainbow modesty
Blushes are the rainbow of modesty. Bill Vaughan
rainbow bully positive-energy
If anyone tries to bully you don’t let them. Take the positive energy form a ball of rainbow power and just, like shove it. Ariana Grande
rainbow way speak
If you take myth and folklore, and these things that speak in symbols, they can be interpreted in so many ways that although the actual image is clear enough, the interpretation is infinitely blurred, a sort of enormous rainbow of every possible colour you could imagine. Diana Wynne Jones
rainbow gold pot
We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them Diane Ravitch
rainbow english-words empty
English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows. Denis Johnson
rainbow puddles needs
We cannot protect ourselves from trouble, but we can dance through the puddles of life with a rainbow smile, twirling the only umbrella we need -- the umbrella of God's love. Barbara Johnson
rainbow giving matter
Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter. Edward Abbey
rainbow poetry going-away
Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away. Carl Sandburg
rainbow monsters horror
All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live." - Peloquin Clive Barker
irises influence novel
Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good. A. N. Wilson
irises clamor handmaids-tale
Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently. Margaret Atwood
irises portraits ifs
This is a portrait of Iris Clert if I say so. Robert Rauschenberg