Nature will not let us fret and fume. She does not like our benevolence or our learning much better than she likes our frauds and ...wars. When we come out of the caucus, or the bank, or the abolition-convention, or the temperance-meeting, or the transcendental club, into the fields and woods, she says to us, "so hot? my little Sir."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The world is a puzzling place today. All these banks sending us credit cards, with our names on them. Well, we didn't order any cr...edit cards! We don't spend what we don't have. So we just cut them in half and throw them out, just as soon as we open them in the mail. Imagine a bank sending credit cards to two ladies over a hundred years old! What are those folks thinking?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So it is with books, for the most part: they work no redemption on us. The bookseller might certainly know that his customers are ...in no respect better for the purchase and consumption of his wares. The volume is dear at a dollar, and after to reading to weariness the lettered backs, we leave the shop with a sigh, and learn, as I did without surprise of a surly bank director, that in bank parlors they estimate all stocks of this kind as rubbish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was a tall young oysterman lived by the river-side, His shop was just upon the bank, his boat was on the tide;... The daughter of a fisherman, that was so straight and slim, Lived over on the other bank, right opposite to him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we ...put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Truth lives, in fact, for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs 'pass,' so long as nothing challenges them, j...ust as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
on a May morwening upon Malverne hilles Me befel a ferly, of fairye me thoughte;... I was wery ofwandred and wente me to reste Under a brod bank by a bournes side; And as I lay and lenede and lookede on the watres, I slomerede into a sleeping, it swyede so merye.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You ask can we ever trust the Bear?... I will give you several answers at once. The first is no, we can never trust the Bear. For ...one reason, the Bear doesn't trust himself. The Bear is threatened and the Bear is frightened and the Bear is falling apart. The Bear is disgusted with his past, sick of his present and scared stiff of his future. He often was. The Bear is broke, lazy, volatile, incompetent, slippery, dangerously proud, dangerously armed, sometimes brilliant, often ignorant. Without his claws, he'd be just another chaotic member of the Third World.... The second answer is yes, we can trust the Bear completely. The Bear has never been so trustworthy. The Bear is begging to be part of us, to submerge his problems in us, to have his own bank account with us, to shop in our High Street and be accepted as a dignified member of our forest as well as his.... The Bear needs us so desperately that we may safely trust him to need us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life is a long Dardenelles, My Dear Madam, the shores whereof are bright with flowers, which we want to pluck, but the bank is too... high; & so we float on & on, hoping to come to a landing-place at last--but swoop! we launch into the great sea! Yet the geographers say, even then we must not despair, because across the great sea, however desolate & vacant it may look, lie all Persia & the delicious lands roundabout Damascus.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Even like two little bank-dividing brooks, That wash the pebbles with their wanton streams,... And having ranged and searched a thousand nooks, Meet both at length in silver-breasted Thames Where in a greater current they conjoin: So I my Best-Beloved's am, so he is mine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »