Some men love only to talk where they are masters. They like to go to school-girls, or to boys, or into the shops where the saunte...ring people gladly lend an ear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are some things which a man never speaks of, which are much finer kept silent about. To the highest communications we only l...end a silent ear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My life more civil is and free Than any civil polity.... Ye princes, keep your realms And circumscribèd power, Not wide as are my dreams, Nor rich as is this hour. What can ye give which I have not? What can ye take which I have got? Can ye defend the dangerless? Can ye inherit nakedness? To all true wants Time's ear is deaf, Penurious states lend no relief Out of their pelf: But a free soul--thank God-- Can help itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know. ... I had heard of you by t...he hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you lend money to my people, to the poor among you, you shall not deal with them as a creditor; you shall not exact interest fr...om them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All things are wearisome; more than one can express; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, or the ear filled with hearing. What ha...s been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.... Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But as it is written, eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prep...ared for them that love him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »