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Hands Quotes by Alexander Pope
- Pleased to the last, he crops the flowery food, And licks the hand just raised to shed his blood.
- Great oaks grow from little acorns. He has a green thumb. He has green fingers. He's sowing his wild oats. Here Ceres' gifts in waving…
- All other goods by Fortune's hands are given; A wife is the peculiar gift of heaven.
- Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
- Who know but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours fierce ambition in a Caesar's mind.
- But would you sing, and rival Orpheus' strain. The wond'ring forests soon should dance again; The moving mountains hear the powerful call. And headlong streams…
- Dear fatal name! rest ever unreveal'd, Nor pass these lips in holy silence seal'd. Hide it, my heart, within that close disguise, Where mixed with…
- Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Nor human spark is left, nor glimpse divine! Lo! thy dread empire, Chaos! is restored; Light dies…
- Music resembles poetry, in each Are nameless graces which no methods teach, And which a master hand alone can reach.
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