You see, male man was made with five strong senses to gather the truth of things and his mind is a threshing floor to clean his tr...uth in. This is often an unhappy thing, for man sees himself as he really is. Thus he is made very miserable. But he does not destroy himself because the female man was made with squint eyes so that she sees only those things which please her. And her threshing floor is cramped and cluttered. She cannot separate the wheat from the chaff. But she achieves a harvest that makes her happy. When she sees man fleeing from her own dish and he is blindly and divinely happy. Ah, yes, the female companion of man has the gift of the soothing-balm of lies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep," the innocent sleep,... Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleave of care, The death of each day's life, sore labor's bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature's second course, Chief nourisher in life's feast.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come Sleep! Oh Sleep, the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe,... The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, Th'indifferent judge between the high and low.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king;... The breath of worldly men cannot depose The deputy elected by the Lord.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, th...at appear from mount Gilead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thinking as I do that the Creator of this world is a very cruel being, & being a worshipper of Christ, I cannot help saying: "the ...Son, O how unlike the Father!" First God Almighty comes with a thump on the head. Then Jesus Christ comes with a balm to heal it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the majority of colored men do not yet think it worth while that women aspire to higher education.... The three R's, a little ...music and a good deal of dancing, a first rate dress-maker and a bottle of magnolia balm, are quite enough generally to render charming any woman possessed of tact and the capacity for worshipping masculinity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A happy rural seat of various view: Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm;... Others whose fruit, burnished with golden rind, Hung amiable--Hesperian fables true. If true, here only--and of delicious taste. Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks Gracing the tender herb, were interposed, Or palmy hillock; or the flowery lap Of some irriguous valley spread her store, Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose. Another side, umbrageous grots and caves Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape, and gently creeps Luxuriant: meanwhile murmuring waters fall Down the slope hills, dispersed, or in a lake, That to the fringed bank with myrtle crowned Her crystal mirror holds, unite their streams.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »