John Milton Quotes, Writing Quotes, Hands Quotes

This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand.

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When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!

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Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

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It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips.

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God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

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Our Palestinian brethren continue to be slaughtered at the hands of Israelis while the world turns the other cheek.

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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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You are as the yellow leaf. The messengers of death are at hand. You are to travel far away. What will you take with you? You are the lamp To lighten the way. Then hurry, hurry. When your light shines.

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Anger assists hands however weak.

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People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don't need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.

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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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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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I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty itself (paradox though it may seem) to let the slavery of the other states alone; while, on the other hand, I hold it to be equally clear, that we should never knowingly lend ourselves directly or indirectly, to prevent that slavery from dying a natural death--to find new places for it to live in, when it can no longer exist in the old.

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Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

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I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein.

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Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left.

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I'm not here to perform. I'm here to sign autographs. You have to wait till I come back with my own hand.

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Those who want much, are always much in need; happy the man to whom God gives with a sparing hand what is sufficient for his wants.

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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, forthat is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.

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Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.

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