It is the part of cowardliness, and not of virtue, to seek to squat itself in some hollow lurking hole, or to hide herself under s...ome massive tomb, thereby to shun the strokes of fortune.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was such a leafy wilderness; a place for fauns and satyrs, and where bats hung all day to the rocks, and at evening flitted ove...r the water, and fireflies husbanded their light under the grass and leaves against the night.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the... same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth it in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which... come in may see the light.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,... And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide, "Doth God exact day labor, light denied?" I fondly ask; by Patience, to prevent That murmur, soon replies: "God doth not need Either man's work or his own gifts; who best Bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state Is kingly: thousands at his bidding speed And post o'er land and ocean without rest. They also serve who only stand and wait."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a normal person the motor and sensory nervous systems act as the windows of the individual personality.... [ellipsis in origina...l] The broken, many-stained and pictorial windows through which the light is struggling under disadvantages to harmonize itself with the physical world at large are found in three classes of persons--the mentally deficient, the morally deficient, and the insane. In these, the light is there, but the images, as in a broken cathedral window, are more or less shattered and confused.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat ... but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage ...in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On starlight nights I used to pace up and down those long, cold streets, scowling at the little, sleeping houses on either side, w...ith their storm-windows and covered back porches. They were flimsy shelters, most of them poorly built of light wood, with spindle porch-posts horribly mutilated by the turning-lathe. Yet for all their frailness, how much jealousy and envy and unhappiness some of them managed to contain! The life that went on in them seemed to me made up of evasions and negations; shifts to save cooking, to save washing and cleaning, devices to propitiate the tongue of gossip. This guarded mode of existence was like living under a tyranny. People's speech, their voices, their very glances, became furtive and repressed. Every individual taste, every natural appetite, was bridled by caution. The people asleep in those houses, I thought, tried to live like the mice in their own kitchens; to make no noise, to leave no trace, to slip over the surface of things in the dark.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you love music, hear it; go to operas, concerts and pay fiddlers to play to you; but I insist on your neither piping nor fiddli...ng yourself. It puts a gentleman in a very frivolous, contemptible light.... Few things would mortify me more than to see you bearing a part in a concert, with a fiddle under your chin, or a pipe in your mouth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the ...surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »