Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day c...atch you unexpectedly, like a trap.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting t...ogether in different relations the meshes of its trap. Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; but he had acute sensibility to the higher forces.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Across Parker Avenue from the fort is the Site of the Old Gallows, where 83 men "stood on nothin', a-lookin' up a rope." The platf...orm had a trap wide enought to "accommodate" 12 men, but half that number was the highest ever reached. On two occasions six miscreants were executed. There were several groups of five, some quartets and trios.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The myth of motherhood as martyrdom has been bred into women, and behavioral scientists have helped embellish the myth with their ...ideas of correct "feminine" behavior. If women understand that they do not have to ignore their own needs and desires when they become mothers, that to be self-interested is not to be selfish, it will help them to avoid the trap of overattachment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The little lifting helplessness, the queer Whimper-whine; whose unridiculous... Lost softness softly makes a trap for us. And makes a curse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a thinking person attains adulthood and develops a mature consciousness, he reluctantly feels himself in a trap from which th...ere is no exit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap, than his neighbor, though he build his hous...e in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations; and this especial trap is laid to trip our feet ...with, and all are tripped up first and last. But the mighty Mother who had been so sly with us, as if she felt that she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora-box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its ...dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »