Harnessing: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases

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Icon Group International, Incorporated, Nov 26, 2008 - 102 pages
Familiar Quotations HarmingA mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe.ndash;Wayne DyerHe harms himself who does harm to another, and the evil plan is most harmful to the planner.ndash;HesiodIt is easy to dodge a spear that comes in front of you but hard to keep harms away from an arrow shot from behind.ndash;ProverbIt isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.ndash;Dan QuayleOne man's religion neither harms nor helps another man.ndash;Quintus Septimius Tertullian Use in Literature HarmingThe University of California, situated here, was fortunate in escaping injury, it being reported that not a building was harmed in the slightest degree.ndash;Charles Morris (editor) in The San Francisco Calamity.When down in straw we tumbling lye, With Morpheus' charms asleep, My heavy, sad, and mournful eye In security so deep; Then do I dream within my arms With thee I sleeping lye, Then do I dread or fear no harms, Nor feel no misery.ndash;Charles Mackay (editor) in Cavalier Songs and Ballads of England from 1642 to 1684.But as every Indian stood behind a tree, it is not probable that many, if any, were harmed.ndash;John S.C. Abbott in David Crockett.His horse was trembling all over from shock, and so was he, but neither was much harmed.ndash;Joseph A. Altsheler in The Star of Gettysburg.Lo, here the gift of fell ambition, Of usurpation and of treachery! Lo, here the harms that wait upon all those That do intrude themselves in other's lands, Which are not under their dominion.ndash;Shakespeare Apocrypha in Locrine / Mucedorus.But the girl was wearing her Magic Belt and was not harmed.ndash;L. Frank Baum in Glinda of Oz.

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