This perceiving, active being is what I call mind, spirit, soul, or myself. By which words I do not denote any one of my ideas, bu...t a thing entirely distinct from them, wherein they exist, or, which is the same thing, whereby they are perceived; for the existence of an idea consists in being perceived.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fear death?--to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face,... When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The power of the night, the press of the storm, The post of the foe; Where he stands, the Arch Fear in a visible form, Yet the strong man must go:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The heart deceives, because it is never anything but the expression of the mind's miscalculations ... I don't know what the heart ...is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Seems, madam? Nay, it is. I know not "seems". 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good Mother,... Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected havior of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly. These indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play. But I have that within which passes show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black,... ... Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is sai...d to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »