Anyone who tries to keep track of what is happening in China is going to end up by wearing all the skin of his left ear from twirl...ing around on it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements, and doubts. We tend to for...get the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end result of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is remarkable how easily and insensibly we fall into a particular route, and make a beaten track for ourselves. I had not lived... there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or six years since I trod it, it is still quite distinct. It is true, I fear, that others may have fallen into it, and so helped to keep it open.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thru all the tumult and the strife, I hear that music ringing.... It sounds and echoes in my soul; How can I keep from singing?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some keep the Sabbath going to Church-- I keep it, staying at Home--... With a Bobolink for a Chorister-- And an Orchard, for a Dome--LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The same Grim giving to do over for them both.... She dared no more than ask him with her eyes How was it with him for a second trial. And with his eyes he asked her not to ask. They had given him back to her, but not to keep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Slow, slow, fresh fount, keep time with my salt tears; Yet slower yet, oh faintly gentle springs:... List to the heavy part the music bears, "Woe weeps out her division when she sings." Droop herbs and flowers; Fall grief in showers; "Our beauties are not ours": Oh, I could still, Like melting snow upon some craggy hill, Drop, drop, drop, drop, Since nature's pride is, now, a withered daffodil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »