Charles Dickens Quotes, Hands Quotes, Sorrow Quotes

If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!

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This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

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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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God created hand, head, and heart; the hand for the deed, the head for the world, the heart for mysticism.

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

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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 thick stick in one's hand makes people respectful.

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renown, n. A degree of distinction between notoriety and fame - a little more supportable than the one and a little more intolerable than the other. Sometimes it is conferred by an unfriendly and inconsiderate hand.

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In the right hands, literature is not resorted to as a consolation, and by the broken and decayed, but as a decalogue.

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There is no detective in England equal to a spinster lady of uncertain age with plenty of time on her hands.

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I spend twelve hours a week - a little over 10% of my waking hours - playing the game. Now I am trying to figure out how to get by on less sleep in order to fit in a few more hands.

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Science and religion will meet and shake hands.

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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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Welcome, Disappointment! Thy hand is cold and hard, but it is the hand of a friend. Thy voice is stern and harsh, but it is the voice of a friend. Oh, there is something sublime in calm endurance, something sublime in the resolute, fixed purpose of suffering without complaining, which makes disappointment oftentimes better than success!

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Let me tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny start of a paunch. In addition, an awkward gait, and a cigar in the mouth and a pen in pocket or hand.

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The hour-hand of life.

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Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.

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Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar.

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As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand.

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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.

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