No two moments are any more alike than two snowflakes. Like snowflakes, they get that same look from being so plentiful and fallin...g so close together. But examine them closely and see the multiple differences between them. Each moment has its own task and capacity, and doesn't melt down like snow and form again. It keeps its character forever. so the great difficulty lies in trying to transpose last night's moment to a day which has no knowledge of it. That look, that tender touch, was issued by the mint of the richest of all kingdoms. That same expression of today is utter counterfeit, or at best the wildest of inflation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We too had many pretty toys when young; A law indifferent to blame or praise,... To bribe or threat; habits that made old wrong Melt down, as it were wax in the sun's rays; Public opinion ripening for so long We thought it would outlive all future days.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him is to find my own, though it ...were only to melt him down into an epithet or an image for daily use.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I light matches and put them in my mouth, and my teeth melt but the greenery hisses on.... I drink blood from my wrists and the green slips out like a bracelet. Couldn't one of my keepers get a lawn mower and chop it down if I turned inside out for an hour?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For, ere Demetrius looked on Hermia's eyne, He hailed down oaths that he was only mine,... And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt, So he dissolved, and showers of oaths did melt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some of us who sit upon this platform have many a time been clamored down, and told that we had no right to speak, and that we wer...e out of our place in public meetings; far be it from us, when women assemble, and a man has a thought in his soul, burning for utterance, to retaliate upon him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »