For although memories, of a season, for example, Melt into a single snapshot, one cannot guard, treasure... That stalled moment. It too is flowing, fleeting; It is a picture of flowing, scenery, though living, mortal, Over which an abstract action is laid out in blunt, Harsh strokes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When men consider the great pains, industry, and parts, that have, for so many ages, been laid out on the cultivation and advancem...ent of the sciences, and that notwithstanding all this, the far greater part of them remain full of darkness and uncertainty, and that, taking all together, a small portion of them doth supply any real benefit to mankind, otherwise than by being an innocent diversion and amusement: I say, the consideration of all this is apt to throw them into a despondency, and perfect contempt of all study.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations; and this especial trap is laid to trip our feet ...with, and all are tripped up first and last. But the mighty Mother who had been so sly with us, as if she felt that she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora-box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The motive of the drama of human life is the necessity, laid upon every man who comes into the world, of discovering the mean betw...een self-assertion and self-restraint suited to his character and his circumstances. And the eternally tragic aspect of the drama lies in this: that the problem set before us is one the elements of which can be but imperfectly known, and of which even an approximately right solution rarely presents itself, until that stern critic, aged experience, has been furnished with ample justification for venting his sarcastic humor upon the irreparable blunders we have already made.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was a heavy power in her eyes which laid hold of his whole being, as if he had drunk some powerful drug. He had been feeling... weak and done before. Now the life came back into him, he felt delivered from his own fretted, daily self.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You are in the process of being indoctrinated. We have not yet evolved a system of education that is not a system of indoctrinatio...n. We are sorry, but it is the best we can do. What you are being taught here is an amalgam of current prejudice and the choices of this particular culture. The slightest look at history will show how impermanent these must be. You are being taught by people who have been able to accommodate themselves to a regime of thought laid down by their predecessors. It is a self-perpetuating system. Those of you who are more robust and individual than others will be encouraged to leave and find ways of educating yourself--educating your own judgements. Those that stay must remember, always, and all the time, that they are being moulded and patterned to fit into the narrow and particular needs of this particular society.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Into thir inmost bower Handed they went; and eas'd the putting off... These troublesom disguises which wee wear, Strait side by side were laid, nor turnd I weene Adam from his fair Spouse, nor Eve the Rites Mysterious of connubial Love refus'd: Whatever Hypocrites austerely talk Of puritie and place and innocence, Defaming as impure what God declares Pure, and commands to som, leaves free to all. Our Maker bids increase, who bids abstain But our Destroyer, foe to God and Man?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I wanted him to fly, burst like a missile from your throat, burst from the spidery-mother-web,... burst from Woman herself where too many had laid out lights that stuck to you and left a burn that smarted into your middle age.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The outer world, from which we cower into our houses, seemed after all a gentle habitable place; and night after night a man's bed..., it seemed, was laid and waiting for him in the fields, where God keeps an open house.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mode of clearing and planting is to fell the trees, and burn once what will burn, then cut them up into suitable lengths, roll... into heaps, and burn again; then, with a hoe, plant potatoes where you can come at the ground between the stumps and charred logs; for a first crop the ashes suffice for manure, and no hoeing being necessary the first year. In the fall, cut, roll, and burn again, and so on, till the land is cleared; and soon it is ready for grain, and to be laid down.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »