Confucius Quotes, Hands Quotes, Wish Quotes

Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.

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On the eve of long voyages or an absence of many years, friends who are tenderly attached will seperate with the usual look, the usual pressure of the hand, planning one final interview for the morrow, while each well knows that it is but a poor feint to save the pain of uttering that one word, and the meeting will never be. Should possibilities be worse to bear than certainties?

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One has a stronger hand when there's more people playing your same cards.

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A wound will perhaps become tolerable with length of time; but wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands.

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I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself.

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Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.

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Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.

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A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

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When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smooths her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone.

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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

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We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having; and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life

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They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more!

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A man who took history in his hands, and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice.

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It was a good thing to have a couple of thousand people all rigid and frozen together, in the palm of one's hand.

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We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion.

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Cursed be the hand that made these fatal holes.

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All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

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No peace can last, or ought to last, which does not recognize and accept the principle that governments derive all their just powers from the consent of the governed, and that no right anywhere exists to hand peoples from sovereignty to sovereignty as if they were property.

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

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When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smooths her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone.

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