All idealists imagine that the causes they serve are fundamentally better than any other causes in the world, and they refuse to b...elieve that if their cause is to flourish at all it requires precisely the same foul-smelling manure that is necessary to all other human undertakings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Through the certain prospect of death, a precious, sweet- smelling drop of levity might be mixed into every life--but now you stra...nge pharmacist-souls have turned it into a foul-tasting drop of poison through which all life is made repulsive.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rammed me in with foul shirts and smocks, socks, foul stockings, greasy napkins, that, Master Brook, there was the rankest compoun...d of villainous smell that ever offended nostril.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
List, list, O list! If thou didst ever thy dear father love--... ... Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder. ... Murder most foul, as in the best it is, But this most foul, strange, and unnatural.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night, The hum of either army stilly sounds,... That the fixed sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch. Fire answers fire, and through their play flames Each battle sees the other's umbered face. Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black ...as a raven. His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set. His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh. His hands are as gold rings set with the beryl, his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires. His legs are as pillars of marble, set upon sockets of fine gold: his countenance is as Lebanon, excellent as the cedars. His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would shew them a sign from heaven. He answered and s...aid unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning, It will be foul weather today: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »