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"I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more."
"No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand."
"The dignity of man into your hands is given; Oh, keep it well, with you it sinks or lifts itself to heaven."
"For the breath of life is in the sunlight and the hand of life is in the wind."
"It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands."
"God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith."
"Pity it is we drowse too soon Pity it is we fall asleep Ere our song encompass the height Ere our hand inherit the deep"
"Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!"
"A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands."
"Al was standing a bare three feet away, his mood almost jovial as he took the paper and it vanished in a wash of black sparkles. “Thank you, Rachel,” he said, carefully reaching for my hand as Trent stiffened. “Welcome back, my itchy witch."
"Ah, mother! How do you do?' said he, giving her a hearty shake of the hand; 'Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch...' On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly."
"I went to the doctor and he said I had acute appendicitis, and I said compared to who?"
"Everything degenerates in the hands of man."
"Kitten, your hands are heaven and your eyes are my home."
"The NFL offensive blocking is played differently; they use their hands instead of their head and shoulders."
"If someone hands you a million dollars, best you become a millionaire, or you won't get to keep the money."
"When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash."
"Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply."
"Come my little one, and give me your hand."
"Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall."
