Ice is an interesting subject for contemplation. They told me that they had some in the ice-houses at Fresh Pond five years old wh...ich was as good as ever. Why is it that a bucket of water soon becomes putrid, but frozen remains sweet forever? It is commonly said that this is the difference between the affections and the intellect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears; Yet slower yet, oh faintly gentle springs:... List to the heavy part the music bears, "Woe weeps out her division when she sings." Droop herbs and flowers; Fall grief in showers; "Our beauties are not ours": Oh, I could still, Like melting snow upon some craggy hill, Drop, drop, drop, drop, Since nature's pride is, now, a withered daffodil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the skins;... but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These cheeks were wont more fresh and fair to be; But now, what once made me so much admired... Is least regarded, and of none desired.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We envy not the warmer clime, that lies In ten degrees of more indulgent skies,... Nor at the coarseness of our heaven repine, Though o'er our heads the frozen Pleiads shine: 'Tis Liberty that crowns Britannia's Isle, And makes her barren rocks and her bleak mountains smile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed wit...h fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »