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hands feelings excess
Charles Caleb Colton The victims of ennui paralyze all the grosser feelings by excess, and torpify all the finer by disuse and inactivity. Disgusted with this world, and indifferent about another, they at last lay violent hands upon themselves, and assume no small credit for the sang froid with which they meet death. But, alas! such beings can scarcely be said to die, for they have never truly lived.
hands class two
Charles Caleb Colton Literature has her quacks no less than medicine, and they are divided into two classes; those who have erudition without genius, and those who have volubility without depth; we shall get second-hand sense from the one, and original nonsense from the other.
hands sorrow tears
Charles Dickens If I dropped a tear upon your hand, may it wither it up! If I spoke a gentle word in your hearing, may it deafen you! If I touched you with my lips, may the touch be poison to you! A curse upon this roof that gave me shelter! Sorrow and shame upon your head! Ruin upon all belonging to you!
hands feet office
Charles Dickens Skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
hands library grew
Charles Stross I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.
hands soul half
Charles Spurgeon I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses [of the Bible] all day than rinse my hand in several chapters.
hands despair rope
Charles Spurgeon Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.
hands soap calling
Charles Spurgeon There’s no shame about any honest calling; don’t be afraid of soiling your hands, there’s plenty of soap to be had.
mind colour new-thought
Charles Dickens New thoughts and hopes were whirling through my mind, and all the colours of my life were changing.
mind body weakness
Charles Caleb Colton Physicians must discover the weaknesses of the human mind, and even condescend to humor them, or they will never be called in to cure the infirmities of the body.
mind gout body
Charles Caleb Colton As the gout seems privileged to attack the bodies of the wealthy, so ennui seems to exert a similar prerogative over their minds.
mind yoke foals
Charles Caleb Colton It is adverse to talent to be consorted and trained up with inferior minds and inferior companions, however high they may rank. The foal of the racer neither finds out his speed nor calls out his powers if pastured out with the common herd, that are destined for the collar and the yoke.
mind pay talent
Charles Caleb Colton Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.
mind toadstools insult
Charles Caleb Colton Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.
mind needed ifs
Charles Stross You know, if I tried to change the minds of everyone who I thought needed changing, I'd never have time to do anything else.
mind christianity holy
Charles Spurgeon When filled with holy truth the mind rests.
mind states state-of-mind
Charles Spurgeon We are in a wrong state of mind if we are not in a thankful state of mind.