H. P. Lovecraft Quotes, Lying Quotes, Hands Quotes

With five feeble senses we pretend to comprehend the boundlessly complex cosmos, yet other beings with wider, stronger, or different range of senses might not only see very differently the things we see, but might see and study whole worlds of matter, energy, and life which lie close at hand yet can never be detected with the senses we have.

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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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Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure.

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Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy.

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Every individual necessarily labors to render the annual revenue of society as great as he can. He generally neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. He intends only his own gain, and he is, in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was not part of his intention.

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The aim of science is, on the one hand, as complete a comprehension as possible of the connection between perceptible experiences in their totality, and, on the other hand, the achievement of this aim by employing a minimum of primary concepts and relations.

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People are needed to take up the challenge, strong people, who proclaim the truth, throw it in people's faces, and do what they can with their own two hands.

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Newspapers are the second hand of history.

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The coward, afraid of the lash, with one hand wipes his eyes and gives with the other. Of what avail are such gifts?

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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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Tags : Ambrose Bierce Quotes , Hands Quotes , Littles Quotes

All you need is something to say, and a burning desire to say it... it doesn't matter where your hands are.

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I can imagine no greater misfortune for a cultured people than to see in the hands of the rulers not only the civil, but also the religious power.

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Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.

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Name and fame! to fly sublime Through the courts, the camps, the schools Is to be the ball of Time, Bandied in the hands of fools.

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Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

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If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practicing treason, in which case lay hands on him, just as if he were doing the same thing in any other building.

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Finish the few duties you have at hand, and then you will have peace.

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Am I a harp that the hand of the mighty may touch me, or a flute that his breath may pass through me? A seeker of silences am I, and what treasure have I found in silences that I may dispense with confidence?

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where civil blood makes civil hands unclean

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The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

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Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Hands Quotes , Technique Quotes