A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come upon you like a robber, and want, l...ike an armed warrior.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
London, thou art of townes A per se. Soveraign of cities, semeliest in sight,... Of high renoun, riches, and royaltie; Of lordis, barons, and many goodly knyght; Of most delectable lusty ladies bright; Of famous prelatis in habitis clericall; Of merchauntis full of substaunce and myght: London, thou art the flour of Cities allLESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We live by our imaginations, by our admirations, by our sentiments. The child walks amid heaps of illusions, which he does not lik...e to have disturbed. The boy, how sweet to him his fancy! how dear the story of barons and battles! What a hero he is, whilst he feeds on his heroes! What a debt is his to imaginative books!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But a cultivated man becomes ashamed of his property, out of new respect for his nature. Especially he hates what he has if he see... that it is accidental,--came to him by inheritance, or gift, or crime; then he feels that it is not having; it does not belong to him, has no root in him and merely lies there because no revolution or no robber takes it away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While you have a thing it can be taken from you ... but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is... yours then for ever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber ass...ails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »