If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have pr...ophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a strong man, fully armed, guards his castle, his property is safe. But when one stronger than he attacks him and overpowers ...him, he takes away his armor in which he trusted and divides his plunder.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty.... The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only ...the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The fireside for the cricket, The wheatstack for the mouse,... When trembling night-winds whistle And moan all round the house;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is restful, tragedy, because one knows that there is no more lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat... with all the world on its back. And the only thing left to do is shout--not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you don't even know till now.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Weep bitterly, and make great moan, and use lamentation, as he is worthy, and that a day or two, lest thou be evil spoken of: and ...then comfort thyself for thy heaviness. For of heaviness cometh death, and the heaviness of the heart breaketh strength.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If experience has established any one thing in this world, it has established this: that it is well for any great class and descri...ption of men in society to be able to say for itself what it wants, and not to have other classes, the so-called educated and intelligent classes, acting for it as its proctors, and supposed to understand its wants and to provide for them.... A class of men may often itself not either fully understand its wants, or adequately express them; but it has a nearer interest and a more sure diligence in the matter than any of its proctors, and therefore a better chance of success.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So we may never Again feel fully confident of the stratagem that bore us... And lived on a certain time after that. And it went away Little by little, as most things do. To profit By this mainstream is today's chore and adventure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Until, accustomed to disappointments, you can let yourself rule and be ruled by these strings or emanations that connect everythin...g together, you haven't fully exorcised the demon of doubt that sets you in motion like a rocking horse that cannot stop rocking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In a land which is fully settled, most men must accept their local environment or try to change it by political means; only the ex...ceptionally gifted or adventurous can leave to seek his fortune elsewhere. In America, on the other hand, to move on and make a fresh start somewhere else is still the normal reaction to dissatisfaction and failure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »