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William Barrett Philosopher

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"Since the Greeks, Western man has believed that Being, all Being, is intelligible, that there is a reason for everythingand that the cosmos is, finally, intelligible. The Oriental, on the other hand, has accepted his existence within a universe that would appear to be meaningless, to the rational Western mind, and has lived with this meaninglessness. Hence the artistic form that seems natural to the Oriental is one that is just as formless or formal, as irrational, as life itself."

Men Hands Greek

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William Butler Yeats Poet, Playwright

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"An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress."

Men Hands Elderly

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William Butler Yeats Poet, Playwright

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"All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs of my fool-driven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil."

Hands Land Poetry

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William James Philosopher, Psychologist

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"Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived from twitching of frogs' legs (especially if the frogs are decapitated) and that, on the other hand, any doctrine chiefly vouched for by the feelings of human beings (with heads on their shoulders) must be benighted and superstitious."

Thinking Hands Science

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William Nicholson Artist

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"Today begins my walk with you. Where you go, I go. Where you stay, I stay. When you sleep, I will sleep. When you rise, I will rise. I will pass my days within the sound of your voice, and my nights within the reach of your hand. And none shall come between us. - Manth Vow"

Hands Night Sleep

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand."

Hands Fall Winter

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp, Or like a cunning instrument cased up Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony."

Years Hands Tunes

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand."

Heart Hands Lady Macbeth

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, And with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, Grasps in the comer."

Hands Time Guests

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep, My dreams presage some joyful news at hand. My bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne, And all this day an unaccustomed spirit Lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts."

Dream Hands Sleep

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good."

Hands Made Fairness

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; You give away myself, which is known mine; For I by vow am so embodied yours That she which marries you must marry me-- Either both or none."

Giving Hands Heaven

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly."

Hands Law Memorable

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand."

Hands Nature Human Nature

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold."

Hands Gold Glorious

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue."

Eye Hands Lady Macbeth

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, While night's black agents to their prey do rouse."

Eye Hands Night

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak hand."

Self Hands Suicide

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense."

Hands Littles Effort

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William Shakespeare Playwright, Poet

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"Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend."

Book Hands Feet

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