Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coal...s thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The outline of the city became frantic in its effort to explain something that defied meaning. Power seemed to have outgrown its s...ervitude and to have asserted its freedom. The cylinder had exploded, and thrown great masses of stone and steam against the sky.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who will join in the march to the Rocky Mountains with me, a sort of high-pressure-double-cylinder-go-it-ahead-forty-wildcats- tea...rin' sort of a feller?... Git out of this warming-pan, ye holly-hocks, and go out to the West where you may be seen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The concentration camps, by making death itself anonymous (making it impossible to find out whether a prisoner is dead or alive), ...robbed death of its meaning as the end of a fulfilled life. In a sense they took away the individual's own death, proving that henceforth nothing belonged to him and he belonged to no one. His death merely set a seal on the fact that he had never existed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness--but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is prepar...ing for the impression.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eter...nal, immutable and increated wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In his green den the murmuring seal Close by his sleek companion lies;... While singly we to bedward steal, And close in fruitless sleep our eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal o...f the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »