To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking... forward.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Child of love, our love's expression, love's creation, loved indeed!... Fresh from God, refresh our spirits, into joy and laughter lead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Beauty, sweet Love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon the tender green... Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth shew, And straight 'tis gone as it had never been.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I were content to wearie out my paine, To bee Narsissus so she were a spring... To drowne in hir those woes my heart do wring: And more I wish transformed to remaine: That whilest I thus in pleasures lappe did lye, I might refresh desire, which else would die.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are women in middle life, whose days are crowded with practical duties, physical strain, and moral responsibility ... they f...ail to see that some use of the mind, in solid reading or in study, would refresh them by its contrast with carking cares, and would prepare interest and pleasure for their later years. Such women often sink into depression, as their cares fall away from them, and many even become insane. They are mentally starved to death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The universe is so aptly fitted to our organization that the eye wanders and reposes at the same time. On every side there is some...thing to soothe and refresh this sense. Look up at the tree-tops, and see how finely Nature finishes off her work there. See how the pines spire without end higher and higher, and make a graceful fringe to the earth. And who shall count the finer cobwebs that soar and float away from their utmost post, and the myriad insects that dodge between them? Leaves are of more various forms than the alphabets of all languages put together; of the oaks alone there are hardly two alike, and each expresses its own character.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »