When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when it is entirely cured ...and at rest from all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why wont they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, cant they use birth control on time? I want an interreg...num. The stupid years patter on with unrelenting feet, never stopping--rising to little monotonous peaks in our imaginations at festivals like New Year's and Easter and Christmas--But, goodness, why need they do it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For anyone addicted to reading commonplace books ... finding a good new one is much like enduring a familiar recurrence of malaria..., with fever, fits of shaking, strange dreams. Unlike a truly paludismic ordeal, however, the symptoms felt while savoring a collection of one man's pet quotations are voluptuously enjoyable ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You could see his sunglasses scanning those faces as they passed, and he must have decided that Rikki's was the one he was waiting... for, the wild card and the luck changer. The new one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
After school days are over, the girls ... find no natural connection between their school life and the new one on which they enter..., and are apt to be aimless, if not listless, needing external stimulus, and finding it only prepared for them, it may be, in some form of social excitement. ...girls after leaving school need intellectual interests, well regulated and not encroaching on home duties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now we have no God. We have had two: the old God that our fathers handed down to us, that we hated, and never liked; the new one t...hat we made for ourselves, that we loved; but now he has flitted away from us, and we see what he was made of--the shadow of our highest ideal, crowned and throned. Now we have no God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have forgiven all the old actors for dying. A new one comes on with the same lines,... like large white growths, in his mouth. The dancers come on from the wings, perfectly mated.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Hindoos compare the moon to a saintly being who has reached the last stage of bodily existence. Great restorer of antiqu...ity, great enchanter! In a mild night when the harvest or hunter's moon shines unobstructedly, the houses in our village, whatever architect they may have had by day, acknowledge only a master. The village street is then as wild as the forest. New and old things are confounded. I know not whether I am sitting on the ruins of a wall, or on the material which is to compose a new one. Nature is an instructed and impartial teacher, spreading no crude opinions, and flattering none; she will be neither radical nor conservative. Consider the moonlight, so civil, yet so savage!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the skins;... but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »