Let me see, what am I to buy for our sheep-shearing feast? Three pound of sugar, five pound of currants, rice--what will this sist...er of mine do with rice? But my father hath made her mistress of the feast, and she lays it on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those w...ho have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigour. With such people the grey head is but the impression of the old fellow's hand in giving them his blessing, and every wrinkle but a notch in the quiet calendar of a well- spent life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a sort of myth of History that philosophers have.... History for philosophers is some sort of great, vast continuity in w...hich the freedom of individuals and economic or social determinations come and get entangled. When someone lays a finger on one of those great themes--continuity, the effective exercise of human liberty, how individual liberty is articulated with social determinations--when someone touches one of these three myths, these good people start crying out that History is being raped or murdered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for ...a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays:... Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change,... a bridge across our fears of what has never been before.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great passion in a man's life may not be for women or men or wealth or toys or fame, or even for his children, but for his mas...culinity, and at any point in his life he may be tempted to throw over the things for which he regularly lays down his life for the sake of that masculinity. He may keep this passion secret from women, and he may even deny it to himself, but the other boys know it about themselves and the wiser ones know it about the rest of us as well.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only the more uncompromising of the mystics still seek for knowledge in a silent land of absolute intuition, where the intellect f...inally lays down its conceptual tools, and rests from its pragmatic labors, while its works do not follow it, but are simply forgotten, and are as if they never had been.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Climbing the bole of the tree, a man clings with all his arms and legs, and lays hold of every knob and sliver. When he mounts amo...ngst the branches, it should be with a more easy alacrity. A man will often be apt at the one operation, yet awkward at the other. Nor is it, indeed, common to meet with a man of such a character as can be carried from a low condition of life through successive ascents, with an aptitude for every condition into which he passes; and thus it is that men who rise well will often stand infirmly. But for want of due consideration being given to the nature of men and circumstances, it is a usual thing to hear, not only regret but surprise expressed, when a man who has attained an elevated position in life exhibits in that position those very defects of character through which he is there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »