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Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Riyadh-as-Saliheen by Imam Al-Nawawi, volume 4, hadith number 531
Sunni Hadith
“My heart is your heart," he said. "My hands are your hands.”
Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls
Variant: And what if I'm the one who kills him?" "My heart is your heart," he said, "My hands are your hands.
Source: City of Lost Souls
“Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.”
Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright
No. 166.
The Guardian (1713)
“Steady of heart, and stout of hand.”
Walter Scott The Lay of the Last Minstrel
Canto I, stanza 21.
The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805)
“Dancers are the messengers of the gods.”
Martha Graham (1894–1991) American dancer and choreographer
“A king does not kill messengers.”
Alexander the Great (-356–-323 BC) King of Macedon
As quoted in the Historia Alexandri Magni of Pseudo-Kallisthenes, 1.37.9-13
Context: Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.