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• While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Selfishness, Virtue, Benevolence

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• Popular glory is a perfect coquette; her lovers must toil, feel every inquietude, indulge every caprice, and perhaps at last be jilted into the bargain. True glory, on the other hand, resembles a woman of sense; her admirers must play no tricks. They feel no great anxiety, for they are sure in the end of being rewarded in proportion to their merit.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Play, Perfect, Anxiety

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.193

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• Pity, though it may often relieve, is but, at best, a short-lived passion, and seldom affords distress more than transitory assistance; with some it scarce lasts from the first impulse till the hand can be put into the pocket.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Passion, May, Lasts

  Oliver Goldsmith (1824). “Essays, poems and plays”, p.33

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• Titles and mottoes to books are like escutcheons and dignities in the hands of a king. The wise sometimes condescend to accept of them; but none but a fool would imagine them of any real importance. We ought to depend upon intrinsic merit, and not the slender helps of the title.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Wise, Kings, Real

  Oliver Goldsmith (1820). “Essays and The Bee”

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• My hands are clean, but my heart has somewhat of impurity.

  Euripides

  Heart, Clean, Impurity

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

  John Milton

  Writing, Knowing, Left Hand

  'The Reason of Church Government' (1642) bk. 2, introduction

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• Morn, Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand Unbarr'd the gates of light.

  John Milton

  Morning, Light, Hours

  John Milton, Henry John Todd (1852). “The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors; and with Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Derived Principally from Original Documents in Her Majesty's State-paper Office”, p.381

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• It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hand to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.

  John Milton

  Bible, Men, Grace

  John Milton (1835). “Prose Works”, p.325

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• The hand of benevolence is everywhere stretched out, searching into abuses, righting wrongs, alleviating distresses, and bringing to the knowledge and sympathies of the world the lowly, the oppressed, and the forgotten.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Compassion, Abuse, World

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1852). “Uncle Tom's cabin, or, Life among the lowly”, p.6

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• In the gates of eternity the black hand and the white hand hold each other with equal clasp.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Equality, White, Black

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• If sometimes our poor people have had to die of starvation, it is not that God didn't care for them, but because you and I didn't give, were not an instrument of love in the hands of God, to give them that bread, to give them that clothing; because we did not recognize him, when once more Christ came in distressing disguise, in the hungry man, in the lonely man, in the homeless child, and seeking for shelter.

  Mother Teresa

  Lonely, Children, Men

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• Let wealth come in by comely thrift,
  And not by any sordid shift;
  'T is haste
  Makes waste;
  Extremes have still their fault.
  Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand,
  Holds none at all, or little, in his hand.

  Robert Herrick

  Haste Makes Waste, Dry, Littles

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”, p.206

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• It is not enough to take this weapon out of the hands of soldiers. It must be put into the hands of those who will know how to strip its military casing and adapt it to the arts of peace.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Art, Military, Soldier

  Address before the General Assembly of the United Nations on Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, www.iaea.org. December 08, 1953.

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• He who brings ridicule to bear against truth finds in his hand a blade without a hilt.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Bears, Blades, Ridicule

  Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

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• Worse than a bloody hand is a hard heart.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Heart, Bloody, Hard

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1871). “The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Complete in One Volume”, p.300

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• For more than a thousand years the Bible, collectively taken, has gone hand in hand with civilization science, law; in short, with the moral and intellectual cultivation of the species, always supporting and often leading he way.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Bible, Taken, Law

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1853). “The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an Introductory Essay Upon His Philosophical and Theological Opinions”, p.611

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• I want to say to you, friends, that the Jewish community in Palestine is going to fight to the very end. If we have arms to fight with, we will fight with those, and if not, we will fight with stones in our hands.

  Golda Meir

  Fighting, Community, Want

  Golda Meir, Marie Syrkin (1973). “A land of our own: an oral autobiography”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• Quite the ugliest face I ever saw was that of a woman whom the world called beautiful. Through its silver veil the evil and ungentle passions looked out, hideous and hateful. On the other hand, there are faces which the multitude, at first glance, pronounce homely, unattractive and such as "Nature fashions by the gross," which I always recognize with a warm heart-thrill. Not for the world would I have one feature changed; they please me as they are; they are hallowed by kind memories, and are beautiful through their associations.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Beautiful, Fashion, Memories

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• With warning hand I mark Time's rapid flight,
  From Life's glad morning to its solemn night;
  Yet, through the dear Lord's love, I also show
  There's light above me by the shade I throw.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Morning, Night, Light

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• How many of the people I know - sons and daughters - have intricate abstract expressionist paintings of their mothers, created out of their own emotions, attitudes, hands. And how many have only Polaroid pictures of their fathers.

  Ellen Goodman

  Daughter, Mother, Attitude

  Ellen Goodman (1983). “At Large”, Fawcett Books

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• Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret. You are looking into a predator's eyes. Most predators have eyes set right on the front of their heads, so they can use binocular vision to sight and track their prey.

  Diane Ackerman

  Eye, Mirrors, Sight

  "A Natural History of the Senses". Book by Diane Ackerman, 1990.

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• Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

  Diane Ackerman

  Jobs, Work, Coffee

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• In action, the English have the advantage enjoyed by free men always entitled to free discussion: of having a ready judgment on every question. We Germans, on the other hand, are always thinking. We think so much that we never form a judgment.

  Heinrich Heine

  Men, Thinking, Action

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• God's miracles are to be found in nature itself; the wind and waves, the wood that becomes a tree - all of these are explained biologically, but behind them is the hand of God.

  Ronald Reagan

  Nature, Wind, Tree

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• I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience had not taught me that by this he thinks, Thought then, is the essence of man, and without this we cannot conceive of him.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Thinking, Essence

  Blaise Pascal (1825). “Thoughts on Religion, and Other Subjects”, p.5

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