Most people with whom I talk, men and women even of some originality and genius, have their scheme of the universe all cut and dri...ed,--very dry, I assure you, to hear, dry enough to burn, dry-rotted and powder-post, methinks,--which they set up between you and them in the shortest intercourse; an ancient and tottering frame with all its boards blown off. They do not walk without their bed. Some, to me, seemingly very unimportant and unsubstantial things and relations are for them everlastingly settled,--as Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, and the like. These are like the everlasting hills to them. But in all my wanderings I never came across the least vestige of authority for these things. They have not left so distinct a trace as the delicate flower of a remote geological period on the coal in my grate.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. Eat no...t of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord's passover.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are those who never burn incense when things are going well, but then throw themselves at the Buddha's feet when crises come....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is seen At the end that the kind and good are rewarded,... That the unjust one is doomed to burn forever Around his error, sadder and wiser anyway. Between these extremes the others muddle through Like us....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »