Ambrose Bierce Quotes, Sarcastic Quotes, Hands Quotes

While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands, you are safe, for you can watch both his.

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Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving prospect stand, And nodding tempt the joyful reaper's hand.

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Tags : Alexander Pope Quotes , Oats Quotes , Hands Quotes

If at great things thou would'st arrive, Get riches first, get wealth, and treasure heap, Not difficult, if thou hearken to me; Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand, They whom I favor thrive in wealth amain, While virtue, valor, wisdom, sit in want.

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[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.

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And so gentlemen, I learned. Oh, if you have to learn, you learn; if you’re desperate for a way out, you learn; you learn pitilessly. You stand over yourself with a whip in your hand; if there’s the least resistance, you lash yourself.

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The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might almost say upon this jest, all the literature of our faith is founded.

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The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India's freedom.

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His hands can't hit what his eyes can't see.

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Enough, if something from our hands have power To live, and act, and serve the future hour; And if, as toward the silent tomb we go, Through love, through hope, and faith's transcendent dower, We feel that we are greater than we know.

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All other goods by fortune's hand are given, A wife is the peculiar gift of Heaven.

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History is not a web woven with innocent hands. Among all the causes which degrade and demoralize men, power is the most constant and most active.

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Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways.

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Beauty is not a need but an ecstasy. It is not a mouth thirsting nor an empty hand stretched forth, But rather a heart enflamed and a soul enchanted.

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The hand is no different from what it creates.

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Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience.

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You are as the yellow leaf. The messengers of death are at hand. You are to travel far away. What will you take with you? You are the lamp To lighten the way. Then hurry, hurry. When your light shines.

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Gentleness, Virtue, Wisdom, and Endurance, These are the seals of that most firm assurance Which bars the pit over Destruction's strength; And if, with infirm hand, Eternity, Mother of many acts and hours, should free The serpent that would clasp her with his length; These are the spells by which to reassume An empire o'er the disentangled doom.

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Hand-spinning is designed to put millions of rupees in the hands of the poor villagers.

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The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls.

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A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]

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