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There is something in the eloquence of the pulpit, when it is really eloquence, which is entitled to the highest praise and honour. The preacher who can touch and affect such an heterogeneous mass of hearers, on subjects limited, and long worn thread-bare in all common hands; who can say any thing new or striking, any thing that rouses the attention, without offending the taste, or wearing out the feelings of his hearers, is a man whom one could not (in his public capacity) honour enough.

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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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Only when Eternity takes Time by the hand, Only when infinity weds the finite's thought, Can man be free from himself and live with God.

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Capitalism gives all of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and hang on to it.

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Ah, mother! How do you do?' said he, giving her a hearty shake of the hand; 'Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch...' On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly.

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For liberty hath a sharp and double edge, fit only to be handled by just and virtuous men; to bad and dissolute, it becomes a mischief unwieldy in their own hands.

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It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands.

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It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.

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Tags : Rudyard Kipling Quotes , Blue Quotes , Hands Quotes

Do not you see that every misfortune is misconduct; that every honour is desert; that every effort is an insolence of your own?...You carry your fortune in your own hand.

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Self Quotes , Hands Quotes

The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free.

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There is virtue yet in the hoe and the spade, for learned as well as for unlearned hands. And labor is everywhere welcome; alwayswe are invited to work.

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The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.

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Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.

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By patriotism I mean the welfare of the whole people, if I secure it at the hands of my opponent, I should bow down my head to him.

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Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?

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where civil blood makes civil hands unclean

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Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But let this happen in such a way that no one become aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately.

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Tags : Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes , Hands Quotes , Veils Quotes

There is nothing more to be said or to be done tonight, so hand me over my violin and let us try to forget for half an hour the miserable weather and the still more miserable ways of our fellowmen.

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Where you go, I go, What you see, I see, I know I'd never be me without the security, Are your loving arms keeping me from harm Put your hands in my hand & we'll stand.

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Give your hearts, but not into each other's keeping, For only the hand of God can contain your hearts.

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