Is a park any better than a coal mine? What's a mountain got that a slag pile hasn't? What would you rather have in your garden--a...n almond tree or an oil well?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsif...ies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in t...he younger ore and better veins of the mine--and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so--and now the dross is coming.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honourable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were... priests in the temple of Solomon.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Taking men into the union is just the kindergarten of their education and every force is against their further education. Men who ...live up those lonely creeks have only the mine owners' Y.M.C.As, the mine owners' preachers and teachers, the mine owners' doctors and newspapers to look to for their ideas. So they don't get many.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 »
In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes, For they in thee a thousand errors note,... But 'tis my heart that loves what they dispise,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war, How to divide the conquest of thy sight;... Mine eye my heart thy picture's sight would bar, My heart mine eye the freedom of that right.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »