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Hands Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The passive master lent his hand, To the vast Soul which o'er him planned.
- The leaves are falling, falling as from way off, as though far gardens withered in the skies; they are falling with denying gestures. And in…
- A garden is like those pernicious machineries which catch a man's coat-skirt or his hand, and draw in his arm, his leg , and his…
- Few people have any next, they live from hand to mouth without a plan, and are always at the end of their line.
- Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.
- A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no luster as you turn it in your hand, until you come to a…
- We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
- He, who loves the bristle of bayonets, only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his hand.
- I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to…
- Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?
- A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes, in letters of…
- Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the…
- We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will…
- Our people are slow to learn the wisdom of sending character instead of talent to Congress. Again and again they have sent a man of…
- In the hands of the discoverer, medicine becomes a heroic art . . wherever life is dear he is a demigod.
- The hand that rounded Peter's dome, And groined the aisles of Christian Rome, Wrought in a sad sincerity; Himself from God he could not free;…
- There are not in the world at any one time more than a dozen persons who read and understand Plato:-never enough to pay for an…
- I hear therefore with joy whatever is beginning to be said of the dignity and necessity of labor to every citizen. There is virtue yet…
- We fill the hands and nurseries of our children with all manner of dolls, drums and horses, withdrawing their eyes from the plain face and...…
- In the order of nature, we cannot render benefits to those from whom we receive them, or only seldom. But the benefit we receive must…
- Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from…
- A man is like a bit of Labrador spar, which has no lustre as you turn it in your hand until you come to a…
- Self Esteem::"It is very easy in the world to live by the opinion of the world. It is very easy in solitude to be self-centered.…
- It is wonderful how soon a piano gets into a log-hut on the frontier. You would think they found it under a pine-stump. With it…
- [A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand....
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- 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
- The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed… — Alfred Austin
- 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