He seems, to my thinking (although I'm afraid The comparison must, long ere this, have been made),... A Plotinus-Montaigne, where the Egyptian's gold mist And the Gascon's shrewd wit cheek-by-jowl coexist; All admire, and yet scarcely six converts he's got To I don't (nor they either) exactly know what; For though he builds glorious temples, 't is odd He leaves never a doorway to get in a god.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we are merely loquacious and loud talkers, then we can afford to stand very near together, cheek by jowl, and feel each other's... breath; but if we speak reservedly and thoughtfully, we want to be farther apart, that all animal heat and moisture may have a chance to evaporate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You haven't weighed the consequences for your love,... nor have you any regard for your friends. Why are you making such a jealous fuss now, prude, when it's too late? With your own hands You've brought down upon yourself these coals, their blazing points of flame as bright as Doomsday Fire. So enough now of your crying in the wilderness. You've erased the tracery on your cheek by covering it with your palm. Your sighs have kissed away the juice of your lower lip, tasty as nectar and at every instant, the tear that's stuck in your throat is making your sloping breasts tremble. Unkind girl, anger has become your lover, not I.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If anyone strikes you on the cheek, offer the other also; and from anyone who takes away your coat do not withhold even your shirt....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.' But I say to you, Do not resist an evildoer. But if ...anyone strikes you on the right cheek, turn the other also; and if anyone wants to sue you and take your coat, give your cloak as well...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So, laying his cheek against the dresser's wooden one, He died making up stories, the ones... Not every child wanted to listen to.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is every reason to rejoice with those self-styled prophets of commercial disaster, those harbingers of gloom, Over the ...imminent lateness of the denouement that, advancing slowly, never arrives, At the same time keeping the door open to a tongue-in-cheek attitude on the part of the perpetrators....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »