In the ordinary course of things, how many succeed in society merely by virtue of their manners, while others, however meritorious..., fail through lack of them? After all, it's only barbarians who wear uncut precious stones.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
License my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.... O my America! my new-found-land, My kingdom, safeliest when with one man manned, My mine of precious stones, my empery, How blest am I in this discovering thee! To enter in these bonds is to be free; Then where my hand is set, my seal shall be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not see why, since America and her autumn woods have been discovered, our leaves should not compete with the precious stones ...in giving names to colors; and, indeed, I believe that in course of time the names of some of our trees and shrubs, as well as flowers, will get into our popular chromatic nomenclature.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In such a day, in September or October, Walden is a perfect forest mirror, set round with stones as precious to my eye as if fewer... or rarer. Nothing so fair, so pure, and at the same time so large, as a lake, perchance, lies on the surface of the earth. Sky water. It needs no fence. Nations come and go without defiling it. It is a mirror which no stone can crack, whose quicksilver will never wear off, whose gilding Nature continually repairs; no storms, no dust, can dim its surface ever fresh;Ma mirror in which all impurity presented to it sinks, swept and dusted by the sun's hazy brush,--this the light-dust cloth,--which retains no breath that is breathed on it, but sends its own to float as clouds high above its surface, and be reflected in its bosom still.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memoried glances and its murmurs... are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then he took his staff in his hand, and chose five smooth stones from the wadi, and put them in his shepherd s bag, in the pouch; ...his sling was in his hand, and he drew near to the Philistine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Happy are those who find wisdom, and those who get understanding, for her income is better than silver, and her revenue better tha...n gold. She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to those who lay hold of her; those who hold her fast are called happy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He will deliver you from six troubles; in seven no harm shall touch you. In famine he will redeem you from death, and in war from ...the power of the sword. You shall be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and shall not fear destruction when it comes. At destruction and famine you shall laugh, and shall not fear the wild animals of the earth. For you shall be in league with the stones of the field, and the wild animals shall be at peace with you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven: a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plan...t, and a time to pluck up that which is planted; a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up; a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance; a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; a time to get, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away; a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; a time to love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »