A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he give so much as a l...eg or a finger, they will drown him. They wish to be saved from the mischief of their vices, but not from their vices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Part way back from Bedlam I came to my mother's house in Gloucester,... Massachusetts. And this is how I came to catch at her; and this is how I lost her. I cannot forgive your suicide, my mother said. And she never could.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in our...s. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he cannot fit the stature of his understanding to yours.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I can counterfeit the deep tragedian, Speak, and look back, and pry on every side,... Tremble and start at wagging of a straw, Intending deep suspicion. Ghastly looks Are at my service like enforced smiles, And both are ready in their offices At any time to grace my stratagems.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. If th' assassination... Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success--that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all!--here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Put on your rubbers and you won't catch cold. Here's hell, there's heaven. Go to Sunday School.... Be patient, time brings all good things (and cool Strong balm to calm the burning at the brain?) Behold, Love's true, and triumphs, and God's actual.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to put me in your will and you will... see that (as long as I live at least) you will never even catch cold.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The tender skin does not shrink from bayonets, the timid woman is not scared by fagots; the rack is not frightful, nor the rope ig...nominious. The poor Puritan, Antony Parsons, at the stake, tied straw on his head when the fire approached him, and said, "This is God's hat."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too s...oon, it can completely ruin your constitution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »