Ovid Quotes, Fire Quotes, Hands Quotes

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

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What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn him with his foot away?

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Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Hands Quotes , Feet Quotes

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

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

The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide: They hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.

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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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Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Gratitude Quotes , Hands Quotes

German is my mother tongue and as such more natural to me, but I consider Czech much more affectionate, which is why your letter removes several uncertainties; I see you more clearly, the movements of your body, your hands, so quick, so resolute, it’s almost like a meeting.

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With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Are we now smitten.

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We must not be guilty of taking the law into our own hands, and converting it from what it really is to what we think it ought to be.

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Tags : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Hands Quotes

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

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Tags : A. E. Housman Quotes , Humorous Quotes , Hands Quotes

Bird in hand makes it harder to blow nose.

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Tags : Confucius Quotes , Blow Quotes , Hands Quotes

The question "What shall we do about it?" is only asked by those who do not understand the problem. If a problem can be solved at all, to understand it and to know what to do about it are the same thing. On the other hand, doing something about a problem which you do not understand is like trying to clear away darkness by thrusting it aside with your hands. When light is brought, the darkness vanishes at once.

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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

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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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The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good.

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The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.

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The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.

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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.

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And statesmen at her council met Who knew the seasons, when to take Occasion by the hand, and make The bounds of freedom wider yet.

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She admired him; she was used to clutching her hands together in his wake and heaving audible sighs.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Hands Quotes , Together Quotes

Laws are to be enforced justly but firmly, with an iron hand. This is the case anywhere, even in a family.

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Tags : Abu Bakar Bashir Quotes , Hands Quotes , Law Quotes