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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.
world surprise enough
Charles Dickens I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything
world affection should
Charles Dickens Our affections, however laudable, in this transitory world, should never master us; we should guide them, guide them.
world lines facts
Charles Spurgeon Christ is the great central fact in the world's history. To Him everything looks forward or backward. All the lines of history converge upon Him.
world crosses remedy
Charles Spurgeon The world's one and only remedy is the cross.
world causes christ
Charles Spurgeon Anything which you have in this world, which you do not consecrate to Christ's cause, you do rob the Lord of.
world looks christ
Charles Spurgeon There is somebody in the world whom you have to bring to Christ. I do not know where he is, or who he is; but you had better look out for him.
world whole
Alan Watts The whole point of Zen is to suspend the rules we have superimposed on things and to see the world as it is
world victim define-yourself
Alan Watts Do you define yourself as a victim of the world? Or, as the world?
world forget
Alan Watts In looking out upon the world, we forget that the world is looking at itself.
turn-the-other-cheek cheeks
Karl Lagerfeld Forgiveness isn’t something I’m preoccupied with — turning the other cheek isn’t my trip.