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Hand Quotes by Mark Twain
- In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination
- Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it
- Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.
- If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement…
- God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.
- Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass…
- The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to…
- Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought…
- I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul…
- In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves…
- 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…
- I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to…
- I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released…
- God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own.
- Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps…
- We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter…
- The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the…
- In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves…
- God has put somrthing noble and good into every heart His hand created.
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- I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that… — Teresa of Avila
- I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the… — Teresa of Avila
- A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved… — Charles Babbage