Why is light given to one in misery, and life to the bitter in soul, who long for death, but it does not come, and dig for it more... than for hidden treasures; who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad when they find the grave?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only human beings I have thoroughly admired and respected in the world have been those who carried the load of the world with ...a smile, and who, in the face of anxieties that would have knocked me clean out, never showed a tremor. Such men and women end by owning us, soul and body, and our allegiance can never be shaken. We are only too glad to be owned. Religion is nothing but this.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At the Denver House, a hastily erected log structure roofed and partitioned with canvas, described by Horace Greeley in 1859 as "T...he Astor House of the Gold Fields," orchestra leader Jones and his spirited men were interrupted by sporadic but not unforeseen bursts of gunfire that sent them diving for shelter behind a low iron-plated enclosure. Before the smoke had fairly cleared away, they were up again desperately playing and singing: Ha, boys, ho! Ain't you glad you're out of the wilderness, Ain't you glad you're out of the wilderness? Ha, boys, ho!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So I was glad of the fog's Taking me to you... Undetermined summer thing eaten Of grief and passage where you stay. The wheel is ready to turn again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only the sculptors and the poets were half sad, And the pert retinue from the magician's house... Grumbled and went elsewhere. The vanquished powers were glad To be invisible and free:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your letter is come; it came indeed twelve lines ago, but I could not stop to acknowledge it before, & I am glad it did not...r />arrive till I had completed my first sentence, because the sentence had been made since yesterday, & I think forms a very good beginning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »