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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
poetic invisible feels
Judy Blume excels at describing how it feels to be invisible. So how poetic is it that Blume herself is suddenly everywhere? Diablo Cody
poetic-license people poetic
Most of my life I have played a lot of famous people but most of them were dead so you have a poetic license. Christopher Plummer
poetic literal primaries
The primary and literal meaning of the Bible, then, is its centripetal or poetic meaning. Northrop Frye
poetic-license giving doe
Hüzün does not just paralyze the inhabitants of Instanbul, it also gives them poetic license to be paralyzed. Orhan Pamuk
poetic methodology discourse
Every discourse, even a poetic or oracular sentence, carries with it a system of rules for producing analogous things and thus an outline of methodology. Jacques Derrida
poetic surface
The poetic image is a sudden salience on the surface of the psyche Gaston Bachelard
poetic-license novelists poetic
A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life. Jerzy Kosinski
poetic-license dying understood
I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
poetic verses
Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it. Howard Nemerov
pure spirit thou
Make Thou my spirit pure and clear/ As are the frosty skies. Lord Alfred Tennyson
pure roy san served sons
Silliness, pure silliness. There was Roy Rogers' Sons of the Pioneers, there was the Sons of the San Joaquin. It was in that spirit, and tongue-in-cheek, but we've had it for all these years and it's served us well, I think.
purely truck
Most truck and SUV bumpers are purely decorative.
pure
I can't eat pure sugar. I can't have candy. Mary Tyler Moore
pure value
I'd like to see him have more pure value exposure,
pure
Make my breast transparent as pure crystal, that the world, jealous of me, may see the foulest thought my heart does hold.
pure suspect
I suspect what it is is pure stress. Donald Harrison
pure songs
We're pretty kid-friendly. With the pure kids' shows, all the songs are up-tempo. We keep it moving.
pure
There are no pure, pure climber's stages, no 10-mile, 14-percent brutes. And there are no bone-flat sprinters' stages, either.