It is the simplest relation of phenomena, and describes the commonest sensations with more truth than science does, and the latter... at a distance slowly mimics its style and methods.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The scenery of mountain towns is commonly too much crowded. A town which is built on a plain of some extent, with an open horizon,... and surrounded by hills at a distance, affords the best walks and views.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My one pupil has begun his work with me, and I will give you a description how the lecture is conducted. It is the most important ...point, you know, that the tutor should be dignified and at a distance from the pupil, and that the pupil should be as much as possible degraded.... So I sit at the further end of the room; outside the door (which is shut) sits the scout; outside the outer door (also shut) sits the sub-scout: half-way downstairs sits the sub- sub-scout: and down in the yard sits the pupil. The questions are shouted from one to the other, and the answers come back in the same way--it is rather confusing till you are well used to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Manners have been somewhat cynically defined to be a contrivance of wise men to keep fools at a distance. Fashion is shrewd to det...ect those who do not belong to her train, and seldom wastes her attentions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is bad enough that our geniuses cannot do anything useful, but it is worse that no man is fit for society who has fine traits. ...He is admired at a distance, but he cannot come near without appearing a cripple.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'T is worse, and tragic, that no man is fit for society who has fine traits. At a distance he is admired, but bring him hand to ha...nd, he is a cripple.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast. Is some dish brought to you? Then put forth your hand and hel...p yourself in seemly fashion. Does it pass you by? Then do not hold it back. Has it not yet come to you? Then do not stretch out for it at a distance, but wait till it is at your hand. And thus doing with regard to children, and wife, and authority, and wealth, you will be a worthy guest at the table of the gods. And if you even pass over things that are offered to you, and refuse to take of them, then you will not only share the banquet of the gods, but also their dominion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the same ...horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men. Now, women forget all those things they don't want to remember, and remember everything they don't want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One does not lash what lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the ...work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »