Your child...may not call you or other people names.... Don't be tempted to gloss over this issue. You may be able to talk to your...self into not minding being called names, but this decision may come back to haunt you in later years. If you let a preschooler speak disrespectfully to you now, you'll have a much harder time of it when your child is a preteen and the issue resurfaces, which it is likely to do then.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Amongst the learned the lawyers claim first place, the most self-satisfied class of people, as they roll their rock of Sisyphus an...d string together six hundred laws in the same breath, no matter whether relevant or not, piling up opinion on opinion and gloss on gloss to make their profession seem the most difficult of all. Anything which causes trouble has special merit in their eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as i...t demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking--one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All my life I have been restless--... I have felt there is something more wonderful than gloss-- than wholeness-- than staying at home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Much attribute he hath, and much the reason Why we ascribe it to him; yet all his virtues,... Not virtuously of his own part beheld, Do in our eyes begin to lose their gloss, Yea, like fair fruit in an unwholesome dish, Are like to rot untasted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He hath honored me of late, and I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people,... Which would be worn now in their newest gloss, Not cast aside so soon.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ceremony was but devised at first To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,... Recanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown; But where there is true friendship, there needs none.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tried by a New England eye, or the more practical wisdom of modern times, they are the oracles of a race already in its dotage; bu...t held up to the sky, which is the only impartial and incorruptible ordeal, they are of a piece with its depth and serenity, and I am assured that they will have a place and significance as long as there is a sky to test them by.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »