Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes, Men Quotes, Hands Quotes

Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.

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With one hand I take thousands of rubles from the poor, and with the other I hand back a few kopecks.

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Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

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But the close withdrew: the hand softened. It was over-- the moment.

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I saw a startling sight today, a politician with his hands in his own pockets.

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In ourselves our safety must be sought. By our own right hand it must be wrought.

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If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions.

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Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands.

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This American system of ours,call it Americanism,call it capitalism,call it what you will,gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and make the most of it.

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Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!

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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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Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it

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Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.

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And when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The thing became a trumpet; whence he blew Soul-animating strains,-alas! too few.

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They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine.

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Speak to Him, thou, for He hears, and Spirit with Spirit can meet- Closer is He than breathing, and nearer than hands and feet.

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So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.

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A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands.

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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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The spreading wide my narrow Hands / To gather Paradise-.

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