Perhaps I stand now on the eve of a new life, shall watch the sun rise and disappear behind a black cloud extending out into a gre...y sky cover. I shall not be deceived by its glory. If it is to be so, there is work and the influence that work brings, but not happiness. Am I strong enough to face that?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
now I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found... Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew When Alexander's empire passed, they slept so sound.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cows sometimes wear an expression resembling wonderment arrested on its way to becoming a question. In the eye of superior intelli...gence, on the other hand, lies the nil admirari spread out like the monotony of a cloudless sky.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Looking southward, the heavens were completely overcast, the mountains capped with clouds, and the lake generally wore a dark and ...stormy appearance, but from its surface just north of Sugar Island, six or eight miles distant, there was reflected upward to us through the misty air a bright blue tinge from the distant unseen sky of another latitude beyond. They probably had a clear sky then at Greenville, the south end of the lake. Standing on a mountain in the midst of a lake, where would you look for the first sign of approaching fair weather? Not into the heavens, it seems, but into the lake.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Determination and skill come out of a depth of political and cultural experiences. Women resist and are brave in the most ordinary...-seeming situations: on a welfare line, after being told that medical benefits are going to cut; on a street late at night helping a sister who is being harassed; as a mother demanding that the hospital stop experimenting with sterilization on her daughters; one sister to another trying to convince her to stop shooting up because it's giving the man a victory, swallowing up her life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We will get everything out of her that you can squeeze out of a lemon and a bit more.... I will squeeze her until you can hear the... pips squeak.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We were here before the mighty words of the Declaration of Independence were etched across the pages of history. Our forebears lab...ored without wages. They made cotton "king." And yet out of a bottomless vitality, they continued to thrive and develop. If the cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail.... Because the goal of America is freedom, abused and scorned tho' we may be, our destiny is tied up with America's destiny.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What journeyings on foot and on horseback through the wilderness, to preach the gospel to these minks and muskrats! who first, no ...doubt, listened with their red ears out of a natural hospitality and courtesy, and afterward from curiosity or even interest, till at length there "were praying Indians," and, as the General Court wrote to Cromwell, the "work is brought to this perfection that some of the Indians themselves can pray and prophesy in a comfortable manner."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries: and though, perhaps, sometimes the force of a clear argument may ma...ke some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, and keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturb them. Tell a man passionately in love, that he is jilted; bring a score of witnesses of the falsehood of his mistress, it is ten to one but three kind words of hers shall invalidate all their testimonies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »