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• Enthusiasm springs from the imagination, and self-sacrifice from the heart. Women are, therefore, more naturally heroic than men. All nations have in their annals some of these miracles of patriotism, of which woman is the instrument in the hands of God.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Spring, Heart, Sacrifice

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• The death of a man's wife is like cutting down an ancient oak that has long shaded the family mansion. Henceforth the glare of the world, with its cares and vicissitudes falls upon the old widower's heart, and there is nothing to break their force, or shield him from the full weight of misfortune. It is as if his right hand were withered; as if one wing of his angel was broken, and every movement that he made brought him to the ground.

  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Fall, Angel, Heart

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• A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other.

  Confucius

  Mother, Father, Joy

  Confucius (1909). “The Sayings of Confucius”

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• If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should become a groom with a whip in my hand to get them, I will do so. As the search may not be successful, I will follow after that which I love.

  Confucius

  Successful, May, Riches

  Confucius, Mencius, Ssǔ shu, Wu king, Shu Ching (1861). “The Chinese Classics”

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• The spring is already here with her hands full of flowers.

  Fanny Kemble

  Spring, Flower

  Fanny Kemble (1863). “Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation in 1838-1839”, p.144

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• Across a chasm of eighteen hundred years, Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficult to satisfy; He asks for that which a philosopher may often seek in vain at the hands of his friends, or a father of his children, or a bride of her spouse, or a man of his brother. He asks for the human heart; He will have it entirely to Himself. He demands it unconditionally; and forthwith His demand is granted. Wonderful!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jesus, Brother, Children

  Attributed in "The Divinity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ" by Henry Parry Liddon, (pp. 147-148), 1868.

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• A beautiful hand is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm that never palls; and better than all, it is a means of fascinating that never disappears.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Beautiful, Mean, Excellent

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• The Greeks adored their gods by the simple compliment of kissing their hands; and the Romans were treated as atheists if they would not perform the same act when they entered a temple. This custom, however, as a religious ceremony declined with paganism,but was continued as a salutation by inferiors to their superiors, or as a token of esteem among friends.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Religious, Atheist, Kissing

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• Women carry a beautiful hand with them to the grave, when a beautiful face has long ago vanished.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Beautiful, Long Ago, Faces

  Benjamin Disraeli (1871). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.143

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• Happy is the man to whom nature has given a sufficiency with even a sparing hand.

  Horace

  Men, He Man, Given

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• Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?

  George Eliot

  Punishment, Wave, Pity

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.311

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• There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.

  George Eliot

  Glasses, Bird, Cracks

  George Eliot (2005). “Four Novels of George Eliot”, p.162, Wordsworth Editions

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• It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand.

  George Eliot

  Letters, Kind, Now And Then

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot's Life, Complete: Top Novelist Focus”, p.236, 谷月社

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• even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt each other by their very attempts at sympathy or consolation. We can bear no hand on our bruises.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Hurt, Suffering

  George Eliot, John Walter Cross (2010). “George Eliot's Life, as Related in Her Letters and Journals”, p.44, Cambridge University Press

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• The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes, while his failures, on the other hand, are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth, but force him to change his views and methods.

  Carl Jung

  Mistake, Views, Littles

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.59, Psychology Press

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• Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Art, Taken, Enough

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (2014). “Conversations of Goethe with Johann Peter Eckermann”, p.142, Ravenio Books

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• Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Free Will, Benevolence, Recalls

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• Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Thinking, Decision, World

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• Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Haste, Littles, Riches

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• There seems to be no part of knowledge in fewer hands than that of discerning when to have done.

  Jonathan Swift

  Done, Fewer, Discerning

  Jonathan Swift, Paul Anton Fedor Constantin POSSART (1831). “A Tale of a Tub and the Battle of the Books ... Mit Anmerkungen herausgegeben von P. A. Fedor Possart”, p.114

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• It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.

  Jonathan Swift

  Government, Administration, May

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.1109, Delphi Classics

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• When any one person or body of men seize into their hands the power in the last resort, there is properly no longer a government, but what Aristotle and his followers call the abuse and corruption of one.

  Jonathan Swift

  Men, Abuse, Lasts

  Jonathan Swift (1856). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.213

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• The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at least, I am told they were) is that he had no sense of touch whatsoever. Nothing made any impression on his skin. He could feel neither the shape nor the texture of a poem with his hands.

  Edith Sitwell

  Ideas, Feelings, Doubt

  Edith Sitwell (Dame) (1930). “Ser. Milton and the Augustan Age”

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• Possibly everyone now dead considered his own death as a freak accident, a mistake. Some bad luck caused it. Every enterprising man jack of them, and every sunlit vigorous woman and child, too, who had seemed so alive and pleased, was cold as a meat hook, and new chattering people trampled their bones unregarding, and rubbed their hands together and got to work improving their prospects till their own feet slipped and they went under themselves ... Every place was a tilting edge.

  Annie Dillard

  Children, Mistake, Men

  Annie Dillard (1994). “The Annie Dillard reader”, Harpercollins

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• I know only enough of God to want to worship him, by any means ready to hand.

  Annie Dillard

  Mean, Want, Worship

  Annie Dillard (2016). “Holy the Firm”, p.26, Canongate Books

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