There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurryin...g existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer--committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by ob...vious suppressions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A girl could only see That a flower had marred a man,... But what she could not see Was that the flower might be Other than base and fetid:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more th...an the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hath homely age th' alluring beauty took From my poor cheek? Then he hath wasted it.... Are my discourses dull? Barren my wit? If voluble and sharp discourse be marred, Unkindness blunts it more than marble hard.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »