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«Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand.»
«Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.»
«The language of the younger generation has the brutality of the city and an assertion of threatening power at hand, not to come. It is military, theatrical, and at its most coherent probably a lasting repudiation of empty courtesy and bureaucratic euphemism.»
«No greater grief than to remember days of gladness when sorrow is at hand»
«The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.»
«To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.»
«I declare that civil war is inevitable and is near at hand. When it comes the descendants of the heroes of Lexington and Bunker Hill will be found equal in patriotism, courage and heroic endurance with the descendants of the heroes of Cowpens and York»
«So likewise ye, when ye see these things come to pass, know ye that the kingdom of God is nigh at hand.»
Author: Bible | Keywords: at hand
«In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.»
«The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | About: Business | Keywords: at hand, dimly, main

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