Common Short Hand

Famous quotes containing the words common, short and/or hand:

“In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)

“Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“He leadeth me O blessed thought,
O words with heavenly comfort fraught,
Whate’er I do, where’er I be,
Still ‘tis God’s hand that leadeth me.”
—Joseph Henry Gilmore (1834–1918)