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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
haste-makes-waste haste take-time
Take time for all things. Benjamin Franklin
haste-makes-waste years play
I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell. Stephen King
dry superstitions belief
Some ministers would make good martyrs: they are so dry they would burn well. Charles Spurgeon
dry
We don't get ourselves dry cleaned. Barney Frank
dry actors going-to-work
Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again. Benjamin Walker
dry dishes blanket
Lucy was using my blanket to dry the dishes... We now have very secure dishes! Charles M. Schulz
dry turns unless
Unless it turns big-time downwind and the fairways dry out, no, you can't get there in two. Tiger Woods
dry gilded
A gilded No is more satisfactory than a dry Yes. Baltasar Gracian
dry last
we experienced a very dry mid-winter last year, and that is something we never anticipated. George Taylor
dry easier greens pins
The (placement of) pins are a lot easier on Thursday. And when the greens dry out, as they should this week, it's only going to get harder. James Driscoll
dry-up comfort population
I am deeply convinced that any permanent, regular administrative system whose aim is to provide for the needs of the poor will breed more miseries than it can cure, will deprave the population that it wants to help and comfort, will dry up the sources of savings, will stop the accumulation of capital, will retard the development of trade, and will benumb human industry. Alexis de Tocqueville