But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal... than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Pan had been amongst them--not the great god Pan, who has been buried these two thousand years, but the little god Pan, who presid...es over social contretemps and unsuccessful picnics.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The old proverb is very well parted between my master Shylock and you, sir: you have the grace of God, sir, and he hath enough.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The old guard may grumble and occasionally sue, but in a society where Portnoy's Complaint is a record-breaking best- seller sexua...l permissiveness is no longer an issue. The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve-ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the few graces of getting old--and God knows there are few graces--is that if you've worked hard and kept your nose to the ...grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what's happening to me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: but the seventh day is the sabbath of ...the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is the Scroll of Thoth. Herein are set down the magic words by which Isis raised Osiris from the dead. Oh! Amon-Ra--Oh! God o...f Gods--Death is but the doorway to new life--We live today-we shall live again--In many forms shall we return-Oh, mighty one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »