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• though some men did not make war as others did, if they sold their goods for profit to the war-makers, did it make them better because the weapon was not in their own hands, if they had made the weapon and sold it and so put it into the hands of those used it upon the innocent?

  Pearl S. Buck

  War, Men, Weapons

  Pearl S. Buck (2012). “Dragon Seed: A Novel of China at War”, p.451, Open Road Media

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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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• Happiness is the secret of beauty. But who knows the secret of happiness? The wise woman keeps her cosmetics at hand.

  Coco Chanel

  Happiness, Wise, Secret

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• When young, we trust ourselves too much, and we trust others too little when old. Rashness is the error of youth, timid caution of age. Manhood is the isthmus between the two extremes; the ripe and fertile season of action, when alone we can hope to find the head to contrive, united with the hand to execute.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Confidence, Errors, Two

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.183

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• The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Death, Body, Want

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.169

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• Love is an alchemist that can transmute poison into food--and a spaniel, that prefers even punishment from one hand to caresses from another. But it is in love as in war, we are often more indebted for our success to the weakness of the defence than to the energy of the attack; for mere idleness has ruined more women than passion; vanity more than idleness, and credulity more than either.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Love, War, Passion

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• TV has had a stronger impact on our society than any single invention since the automobile. It has put the dead hand on conversation.

  Ann Landers

  Impact, Stronger, Television

  Ann Landers (1979). “The Ann Landers Encyclopedia, A to Z: Improve Your Life Emotionally, Medically, Sexually, Socially, Spiritually”

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• Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes on its own sensations and derives pleasure from all around it, that is more irresistible than any other attraction. There is an air of languid enjoyment in such persons, "in their eyes, in their arms, and their hands, and their face," which robs us of ourselves, and draws us by a secret sympathy towards them.

  William Hazlitt

  Character, Eye, Air

  William Hazlitt (1872). “Sketches and Essays: And Winterslow (essays Written There).”, p.365

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• Freedom & Duty always go hand in hand and if the free do not accept the duty of social responsibility, they will not long remain free.

  John Foster Dulles

  Responsibility, Long, Social

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• The pen is the tongue of the hand; a silent utterer of words for the eye.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Eye, Tongue, Silent

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.261

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• A woman is easily governed, if a man takes her in hand.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Women, Men, Ifs

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• A woman, even a prude, is not long at a loss, however dire her plight. She would seen always to have in hand the fig leaf our Mother Eve bequeathed to her.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Loss, Long

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• Lay down the axe; fling by the spade;
  Leave in its track the toiling plough;
  The rifle and the bayonet-blade
  For arms like yours were fitter now;
  And let the hands that ply the pen
  Quit the light task, and learn to wield
  The horseman's crooked brand, and rein
  The charger on the battle-field.

  William C. Bryant

  War, Light, Track

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• I suppose we all share this pipe-dream of being able to reach out a hand and find anything at will; what is amazing is that we think that good filing could somehow make it comes true. On the contrary: putting a letter into a filing system is like releasing your ferret in the Hampton Court maze.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Dream, Thinking, Order

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• You are a free man, and let no organization come between you and your best interests. Do not let any man, or any body of men, tell you where you shall work, or where you shall not work, when you shall work, or when, you shall not work. If a man wants to belong to a labor organization, let him belong. If he does not want to belong to a labor organization, let him have perfect liberty to stay out. You own yourself. Let no man put a manacle on your hand, or foot, or head, or heart.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Heart, Men, Organization

  Thomas De Witt Talmage (1886). “The Battle for Bread: A Series of Sermons Relating to Labor and Capital”

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• A lawyer is sometimes required to search titles, and the client who thinks he has good right to an estate, puts the papers in his hands, and the attorney goes into the public records and finds everything right for three or four years back; but after a time he comes to a break in the title. So he finds that the man who supposed he owned it owns not an acre of the ground which belongs to someone else. I trace the title of this world from century to century until I find the whole right vested in God. Now to whom did he give it? To his own children. All are yours.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Children, Men, Thinking

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• If God made no response except to perfect faith, who could hope for help? But God has regard for beginnings, and His eye perceives greatness in the germ. The hand of the woman in the crowd trembled as it was stretched toward Jesus, and the faith back of it was superstitiously reverent, trusting in the virtue of the robe, rather than in the One who wore it; yet the genuineness of that faith; feeble though it was, triumphed in God's loving sight. Real trust is real power, though the heart and hand be feeble.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Jesus, Real, Eye

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock (1901). “Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock”

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• The root of honesty is an honest intention, the distinct and deliberate purpose to be true, to handle facts as they are, and not as we wish them to be. Facts lend themselves to manipulation. Many a butcher's hand is worth more than its weight in gold. What we want things to be, we come to see them to be; and the tailor pulls the coat and the truth into a perfect fit from his point of view.

  Maltbie Davenport Babcock

  Honesty, Roots, Views

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• The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Feelings, World, Lasts

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• Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Class, Two, Medicine

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.232

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• Now see what a Christian is, drawn by the hand of Christ. He is a man on whose clear and open brow God has set the stamp of truth; one whose very eye beams bright with honor; in whose very look and bearing you may see freedom, manliness, veracity; a brave man--a noble man--frank, generous, true, with, it may be, many faults; whose freedom may take the form of impetuosity or rashness, but the form of meanness never.

  Frederick William Robertson

  Christian, Eye, Men

  Frederick William Robertson (1873). “ser. 1 God's revelation of heaven [and other sermons]. ser. 2 Christ's judgement respecting inheritance [and other sermons]. ser. 3 The tongue [and other sermons”, p.316

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• The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Writing, Men, Deeds

  Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto (2005). “Woodrow Wilson: The Essential Political Writings”, p.211, Lexington Books

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• I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?

  William Shakespeare

  Summer, Christian, Hurt

  'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 3, sc. 1, l. 63

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• I never knew a critic who made it his business to lash the faults of other writers that was not guilty of greater himself--as the hangman is generally a worse malefactor than the criminal that suffers by his hand.

  Joseph Addison

  Suffering, Criminals, Faults

  Joseph Addison (1804). “The Works of the Right Honourable Joseph Addison”, p.457

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