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Hands Quotes by Benjamin Franklin
- Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.
- Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the…
- Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with…
- There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their…
- The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the colonies…
- Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler,…
- I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that…
- The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
- Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects.…
- All the little money that ever came into my hands was ever laid out in books.
- You have on hand those things that you need if you have but the wit and wisdom to use them.
- Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the…
More Hands Quotes
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against the organization… — Julian Assange
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- I wish I had eight pairs of hands, and another body to shoot the specimens. — John James Audubon
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if… — Saint Augustine
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
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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
- God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf