...I remembered the rose bush that had reached a thorny branch out through the ragged fence, and caught my dress, detaining me whe...n I would have passed on. And again the symbolism of it all came over me. These memories and visions of the poor--they were the clutch of the thorns. Social workers have all felt it. It holds them to their work, because the thorns curve backward, and one cannot pull away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Soft are the hands of Love, but what soft hands... clutched at the thorny ground, scratched like a small white ferret or foraging whippet or hound.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let Love step down, open the clasped hands,... forfeit the thorny crown, retrieve the garment that was whole, body and spirit one, spirit and soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is a thorny undertaking, and more so than it seems, to follow a movement so wandering as that of our mind, to penetrate the opa...que depths of its innermost folds, to pick out and immobilize the innumerable flutterings that agitate it. And it is a new and extraordinary amusement, which withdraws us from the ordinary occupations of the world, yes, even from those most recommended.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here am I: at one stroke incestuous, adulteress, sodomite, and all that in a girl who only lost her maidenhead today!... What prog...ress, my friends!... with what rapidity I advance along the thorny road of vice!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You spotted snakes with double tongue, Thorny hedgehogs, be not seen.... Newts and blindworms, do no wrong, Come not near our Fairy Queen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven,... Whilst like a puffed and reckless libertine Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads, And recks not his own rede.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »