There is no faith, and no stoicism, and no philosophy, that a mortal man can possibly evoke, which will stand the final test of a ...real impassioned onset of Life and Passion upon him. Then all the fair philosophic or Faith-phantoms that he raised from the mist, slide away and disappear as ghosts at cock-crow. For Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass. Amidst his gray philosophizings, Life breaks in upon a man like a morning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unless our philosophy hears the cock crow in every barn-yard within our horizon, it is belated. That sound commonly reminds us tha...t we are growing rusty and antique in our employments and habits of thought.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Out of the wood of thoughts that grows by night To be cut down by the sharp ax of light--,... Out of the night, two cocks together crow, Cleaving the darkness with a silver blow:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Work your progress! Hold to! Now! Win out, ye divil ye! The silent cock shall crow at last. The west shall shake the east awake. W...alk while ye have the night for morn, lightbreakfastbringer, morroweth whereon every past shall full fost sleep. Amain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ride a cock-horse to Banbury-Cross, To see an old woman get up on her horse.... Rings on her fingers, and bells on her toes, And so she makes music wherever she goes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Lord turned and looked at Peter. Then Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said to him, "Before the cock crows to...day, you will deny me three times."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »