Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood? A... smile has dried my tears.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou's met me in an evil hour;... For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender stem: To spare thee now is past my pow'r, Thou bonnie gem.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Her sheep follow'd her, as their tails did them. (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese)... And this song is consider'd a perfect gem, And as to the meaning, it's what you please.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Full many a gem of purest ray serene, The dark unfathom'd caves of ocean bear:... Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned entirely, though. Rather carried ...down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs. He saw God's foot upon the treadle of the loom, and spoke it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Gettysburg speech is at once the shortest and the most famous oration in American history. Put beside it, all the whoopings of... the Websters, Sumners and Everetts seem gaudy and silly. It is eloquence brought to a pellucid and almost gem-like perfection--the highest emotion reduced to a few poetical phrases.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The service of philosophy, and of religion and culture as well, to the human spirit, is to startle it into a sharp and eager obser...vation. Every moment some form grows perfect in hand or face; some tone on the hills or sea is choicer than the rest; some mood of passion or insight or intellectual excitement is irresistibly real and attractive for us,--for that moment only.... How may we see in them all that is to be seen in them by the finest senses?... To burn always with this hard gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. Failure is to form habits; for habit is relative to a stereotypical world; meantime it is only the roughness of the eye that makes any two persons, things, situations, seem alike.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »