Hands Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Painters work from the ground up. The latest version of a painting overlays earlier versions, and obliterates them. Writers, on the other hand, work from left to right. The discardable chapters are on the left.

  Annie Dillard

  Painting, Chapters, Painter

  Annie Dillard (2009). “The Writing Life”, p.5, Harper Collins

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• What profusion is there in His work! When trees blossom there is not a single breastpin, but a whole bosom full of gems; and of leaves they have so many suits that they can throw them away to the winds all summer long. What unnumbered cathedrals has He reared in the forest shades, vast and grand, full of curious carvings, and haunted evermore by tremulous music; and in the heavens above, how do stars seem to have flown out of His hand faster than sparks out of a mighty forge!

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Nature, Stars

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.59

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• Happy is the man who has that in his soul which acts upon the dejected as April airs upon violet roots. Gifts from the hand are silver and gold, but the heart gives that which neither silver nor gold can buy. To be full of goodness, full of cheerfulness, full of sympathy, full of helpful hope, causes a man to carry blessings of which he is himself as unconscious as a lamp is of its own shining. Such a one moves on human life as stars move on dark seas to bewildered mariners; as the sun wheels, bringing all the seasons with him from the south.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Sympathy, Stars, Moving

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.45

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• The mind is hopeful; success is in God's hands.
  [Lat., Sperat quidem animus: quo eveniat, diis in manu est.]

  Plautus

  Success, Hopeful, Mind

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• Ideas in the head set hands about their several tasks.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Ideas, Tasks

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• The man is best served who has no occasion to put the hands of others at the end of his own arms.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Independence, Arms

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• Self-love is an instrument useful but dangerous; it often wounds the hand which makes use of it, and seldom does good without doing harm.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Love Is, Self, Doe

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• Honor is an old-world thing; but it smells sweet to those in whose hand it is strong.

  Ouida

  Sweet, Strong, Smell

  Ouida (1890*). “Moths. The marquis's tactics. Meleagris Gallopavo. Guilderoy”

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• If your rod weighs six ounces, your reel nine, and your line another ounce or two, it means that you are holding a pound of weight in your casting hand - much of the time at arm's length - all the time you fish. Try carrying a pound of butter around that way for four or five hours.

  Ted Trueblood

  Mean, Sea, Fishing

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• The setting is a worthy one, if the devil did desire to have a hand in the affairs of men.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Men, Desire

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2010). “Hound of the Baskervilles”, p.32, Bibliolis Books

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• To see Stephen Spender fumbling with our rich and delicate language is to experience all the horror of seeing a Sevres vase in the hands of a chimpanzee.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Book, Vases, Language

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• Get up now and go and find Robert Kilroy-Silk. Smile in a warm, friendly sort of way, then punch him on the nose. Now go and find Robert on television, despite my best endeavours, this is still relatively easy to do. Wait for a close-up, same smile, and punch him on the nose. If you followed the instructions carefully, you will have noticed a distinct difference. On the one hand, you were suffused with a sense of public-spirited righteousness; on the other, you're probably dribbling blood. That's the difference between reality in life and reality on television.

  A. A. Gill

  Reality, Blood, Differences

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• I can say that hands down from being in this business 32 years; we're going to be much better than we were last year just because there's eight new players that now have experience and Palacios will be healthy.

  Rick Pitino

  Sports, Player, Eight

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• We come finally, however, to the relation of the ideal theory to real world, or "real" probability. If he is consistent a man of the mathematical school washes his hands of applications. To someone who wants them he would say that the ideal system runs parallel to the usual theory: "If this is what you want, try it: it is not my business to justify application of the system; that can only be done by philosophizing; I am a mathematician". In practice he is apt to say: "try this; if it works that will justify it".

  John Edensor Littlewood

  Running, Real, School

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• But though Usury is in itself immoral, and justly condemned by every ethical code, its chief and worst defect in the particular case we are now examining, the growth of Capitalism and its increasing proletariat, is the centralization of irresponsible control over the lives of men: the putting power over the proletariat into the hands of a few who can direct the loans of currency and credit without which that proletariat could not be fed and clothed and maintained in work.

  Hilaire Belloc

  Wisdom, Men, Growth

  Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.96, TAN Books

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• I cannot help but think it perilous to suffer these lands or the sources of their irrigation to fall into the hands of monopolies, which by such means may exercise lordship over the areas dependent on their treatment for productiveness.

  Grover Cleveland

  Fall, Mean, Exercise

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• You have to come to the world of enlightenment with open hands, not clinched fists, without an agenda.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Enlightenment

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