“Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.”
Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay (1800–1859) British historian and Whig politician
On Milton (1825)
“The left hand of creation”
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British-American astronomer 1942Related quotes
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Sara Zarr (1970) American children's writer
“I was suddenly left with nothing in my hands but a handful of crazy stars.”
Jack Kerouac book On the Road
Source: On the Road
Barbara Hepworth (1903–1975) English sculptor
"Barbara Hepworth: A Pictorial Autobiography, Bath, 1971, (extended edition published 1978 and subsequently reprinted in 1985 and 1993) p. 79
1961 - 1975
“Evil and good are God's right hand and left.”
Horace Mann (1796–1859) American politician
Philip James Bailey, in Festus (1839), misattribution of this to Mann seems to have only started in recent years, on the internet.
Misattributed
“Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand?”
Charles Lindbergh (1902–1974) American aviator, author, inventor, explorer, and social activist
As quoted in 1927 (2000) by Robert P. Fitton
“5241. To take from the right Hand, and give to the Left.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“This morning, you can be on his right hand and his left hand if you serve. It's the only way in.”
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
1960s, The Drum Major Instinct (1968)