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  • The majority of the men of the North, and of the South and East and West, are not men of principle. If they vote, they do not sendmen to Congress on errands of humanity; but while their brothers and sisters are being scourged and hung for loving liberty,... it is the mismanagement of wood and iron and stone and gold which concerns them.

    Brother   Men   Iron  
  • Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing unto him. [Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.]

    Wise   Men   Errands  
    George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.298
  • I'm the last person who has any desire to instruct anybody in shame. That's no errand for me.

    Desire   Errands   Lasts  
    Interview with David Steinberg, www.nearbycafe.com. May 25, 1994.
  • Leaving Australia was the hardest thing I have ever done.

  • Most people want to be able to go off and deal with their day - stop in here, run errands there - and when you can't do that, going out becomes a chore.

    Source: www.oprah.com
  • We're living in a time when parenting is not at all mirroring the way I was parented. For me, I just followed my parents around on their errands; when they were busy on the phone, I was quiet. It's a different kettle of fish these days: They run the house, and you listen to their music, and you go to their appointments.

  • One of the things I like best about animals in the wild is that they're always off on some errand. They have appointments to keep. It's only we humans who wonder what we're here for.

    Animal   Errands   Wonder  
  • If an angel should be winged from Heaven, on an errand of mercy to our country, the first accents that would glow on his lips would be, Beware! Be cautious! You have everything to lose; nothing to gain. We live under the only government that ever existed which was framed by the unrestrained and deliberate consultations of the people. Miracles do not cluster. That which has happened but once in six thousand years cannot be expected to happen often. Such a government, once gone, might leave a void, to be filled, for ages, with revolution and tumult, riot and despotism.

    Country   Angel   Years  
  • Until Christ is our treasure, any other motivation we have to suffer for him is a fool’s errand.

  • How sweet the morning air is! See how that one little cloud floats like a pink feather from some gigantic flamingo. Now the red rim of the sun pushes itself over the London cloud-bank. It shines on a good many folk, but on none, I dare bet, who are on a stranger errand than you and I. How small we feel with our petty ambitions and strivings in the presence of the great elemental forces of Nature!

    Sweet   Nature   Morning  
    Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes”, p.121, Race Point Publishing
  • True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out - you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.

    Henry James (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry James (Illustrated)”, p.159, Delphi Classics
  • The Lord’s purposes are often accomplished as we pay heed to the guidance of the Spirit. I believe that the more we act upon the inspiration and impressions which come to us, the more the Lord will entrust to us His errands.

  • Exercise is important, but exercise in a gym is not important. Go and take a walk outside. Skip the umpteenth coffee date and go for a hike instead. Take the stairs. Walk your errands.

  • The privilege and pleasure That we treasure beyond measure Is to run on little errands for the Ministers of State.

    'The Gondoliers' (1889) act 2
  • I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys.

    Source: aalbc.com
  • I’m Adorable. I Look like Keira Knightley Running Errands!

    "The Mindy Project Recap: Miserables Sans Casey" by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, www.vulture.com. October 9, 2013.
  • God takes the most eminent and choicest of His servants for the choicest and most eminent afflictions. They who have received most grace from God are able to bear most afflictions from God. Affliction does not hit the saint by chance, but by direction. God does not draw His bow at a venture. Every one of His arrows goes upon a special errand and touches no breast but his against whom it is sent. It is not only the grace, but the glory of a believer when we can stand and take affliction quietly

    Arrows   Grace   Special  
  • I'm merely running some errands. This is now off the record.

  • What, my soul, was thy errand here? Was it mirth or ease, Or heaping up dust from year to year? "Nay, none of these!" Speak, soul, aright in His holy sight, Whose eye looks still And steadily on thee through the night; "To do His will!

    Eye   Night   Sight  
    John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.93
  • Everyone is afraid of you and when folk are afraid of a person it usually means the person is cruel in some way, and I think you are cruel, Miss Marquess, but please don’t punish me for saying it. I think you know you’re cruel. I think you like being cruel. I think calling you cruel is the same as calling someone else kind. And I don’t want to run errands for someone cruel.

    Running   Mean   Thinking  
    Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.99, Macmillan
  • Success is completion. Success is being able to complete what we set out to do - each individual action, each specific step, each desired experience whether a big project or a very small errand.

    Success   Errands   Able  
    Susan Collins (1996). “Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success”, Barrytown/ Station Hill Press
  • Riddle of destiny, who can show What thy short visit meant, or know What thy errand here below?

    Charles Lamb (1852). “The Works of Charles Lamb”, p.627
  • You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand

    Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.15, The Minerva Group, Inc.
  • Do not go on His errands till first you have sat at His feet.

    Feet   Errands   Goes On  
  • The cheek Is apter than the tongue to tell an errand.

    William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1363, Oxford University Press
  • O happy dogs of England, Bark well at errand boys, If you lived anywhere else, You would not be allowed to make such an infernal noise.

    Dog   Boys   Errands  
    Stevie Smith, James MacGibbon (1983). “Collected Poems”, p.94, New Directions Publishing
  • I was put into jail as I was going to the shoemaker's to get a shoe which was mended. When I was let out the next morning, I proceeded to finish my errand, and, having put on my mended shoe, joined a huckleberry party, who were impatient to put themselves under my conduct; and in half an hour - for the horse was soon tackled - was in the midst of a huckleberry field, on one of our highest hills, two miles off, and then the State was nowhere to be seen.

    Morning   Horse   Party  
  • I'm an animal. I'm an animal in real-life and an animal onstage. I never became a recluse, I never lived up in the Hills where I didn't see real life. You know what I mean? I'm not still living in Brooklyn, but I'm still living in the street. I go out by myself, I don't go out with a million body guards, I run my own errands.

    Running   Real   Mean  
    Source: brightestyoungthings.com
  • I love being home, reading the paper in the morning and having a cup of coffee, doing laundry, going grocery shopping and running daily errands. For me, it's important to have that balance in my life.

    Source: www.roomthirteen.com
  • Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands.

    Book   Angel   Missionary  
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