The family: I believe more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other--I mean the attempt to prolong family connection... unduly, and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I agree that we should work and prolong the functions of life as far as we can, and hope that Death may find me planting my cabbag...es, but indifferent to him and still more to the unfinished state of my garden.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As if the musicians did not so much play the little phrase as execute the rites required by it to appear, and they proceeded to th...e necessary incantations to obtain and prolong for a few instants the miracle of its evocation, Swann, who could no more see the phrase than if it belonged to an ultraviolet world ... Swann felt it as a presence, as a protective goddess and a confidante to his love, who to arrive to him ... had clothed the disguise of this sonorous appearance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a struggle between the Oriental and the Occidental in every nation; some who would be forever contemplating the sun, and ...some who are hastening toward the sunset. The former class says to the latter, When you have reached the sunset, you will be no nearer to the sun. To which the latter replies, But we so prolong the day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I thought no more was needed Youth to prolong... Than dumb-bell and foil To keep the body young. O who could have foretold That the heart grows old?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »