Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now h...igh time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as often as it is pract...icable; and to make this custom the more significant, practise it first upon yourself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Professor Marcus: And didn't someone say, 'The eyes are the windows of the soul?' Mrs.Wilberforce: I don't really know. But, ...oh, it's such a charming thought, I do hope someone expressed it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Basically the cleavage between the two cities is of the simplest: Dallas is where the east ends, and Fort Worth is notoriously "wh...ere the west begins." Dallas is a baby Manhattan; Fort Worth is a cattle annex. Dallas has the suave and glittering clothes of Neiman Marcus; Fort Worth has dust and stockyards. For this a perfectly good historical reason exists. The Texas and Pacific Railway, reaching Dallas from the east in 1872, stopped there; the line was not pushed the few miles westward to Fort Worth till 1876. And in the intervening years dozens of big eastern firms--mercantile establishments, distributors, and the like--got nicely settled in Dallas, and have stayed there ever since. Dallas was the end of the line.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Too late have I loved you, o beauty so ancient and young; too late have I loved you! And behold you were inside of me, and I was o...utside of myself, and that was where I was looking for you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »