Mark Twain Quotes, Sight Quotes, Hands Quotes

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

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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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And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.

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But the sun itself, however beneficent, generally, was less kind to Coketown than hard frost, and rarely looked intently into any of its closer regions without engendering more death than life. So does the eye of Heaven itself become an evil eye, when incapable or sordid hands are interposed between it and the thing it looks upon to bless.

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By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.

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On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it.

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It is a tragedy of the first magnitude that millions of people have ceased to use their hands as hands. Nature has bestowed upon us this great gift which is our hands. If the craze for machinery method continues, it is highly likely that a time will come when we shall be so incapacitated and weak that we shall begin to curse ourselves for having forgotten the use of the living machines given to us by God.

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The secret of fortune is joy in our hands.

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O heresy in fair, fit for these days, A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.

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

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Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands, But more when envy breeds unkind division: There comes the ruin, there begins confusion.

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Tush! Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers: be assured We come to use our hands and not our tongues.

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Mock mockers after that That would not lift a hand maybe To help good, wise or great To bar that foul storm out, for we Traffic in mockery.

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Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Wise Quotes , Hands Quotes

Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? I believe that all religions of the world are true more or less. I say "more or less" because I believe that everything the human hand touches, by reason of the very fact that human beings are imperfect, becomes imperfect.

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And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill; But O for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!

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The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

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May the work of your hands be a sign of gratitude and reverence to the human condition.

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She died chasing greatness and never saw it each time it was in her hand, so she kept seeking it elsewhere, but never understood the work required to get it or to keep it.

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HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.

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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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