And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall the...re be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nor skin nor hide nor fleece shall cover you,... nor curtain of crimson nor fine shelter of cedar-wood be over you, nor the fir-tree nor the pine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yet to me what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me--nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When Sir Robert Walpole was dying, he told Ranby his surgeon that he desired his body might be opened. Ranby acting great horror c...ried, "Good God, my Lord, don't talk of that!" "Nay," said Sir Robert, "it will not be till I am dead, and that I shall not feel it--nor you neither."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My formula for greatness in human beings is amor fati: that one wants to change nothing, neither forwards, nor backwards, nor in a...ll eternity. Not merely to endure necessity, still less to hide it--all idealism is mendacity in the face of necessity--but rather to love it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Passing away, saith the World, passing away: Chances, beauty and youth sapped day by day:... Thy life never continueth in one stay. Is the eye waxen dim, is the dark hair changing to gray That hath won neither laurel nor bay?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here's neither bush nor shrub to bear off any weather at all. And another storm brewing, I hear it sing i' the wind. Yond same bla...ck cloud, yond huge one, looks like a foul bombard that would shed his liquor. If it should thunder as it did before, I know not where to hide my head. Yond same cloud cannot choose but fall by pailfuls.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is twenty-eight years ago to-day since the first woman's rights convention ever held assembled in the Wesleyan chapel at Seneca... Falls, N.Y. Could we have foreseen, when we called that convention, the ridicule, persecution, and misrepresentation that the demand for woman's political, religious and social equality would involve; the long, weary years of waiting and hoping without success; I fear we should not have had the courage and conscience to begin such a protracted struggle, nor the faith and hope to continue the work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »