Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones ... run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarati...ng liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Quite different from them [abstractions of animal nature] in origin and intent, but confused with them in form, are those other co...mpanions of Dionysus, Pan and his children. Home-spun dream of simple people, and like them in the uneventful tenour of his existence, he has almost no story; he is but a presence; the spiritual form of Arcadia, and the ways of human life there; the reflexion, in sacred image or ideal, of its flocks, and orchards, and wild honey; the dangers of its hunters; its weariness in noonday heat; its children, agile as the goats they tend, who run, in their picturesque rags, across the solitary wanderer's path, to startle him, in the unfamiliar upper places; its one adornment and solace being the dance to the homely shepherd's pipe, cut by Pan first from the sedges of the brook Molpeia.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Any man that resists the present tides that run in the world, will find himself thrown upon a shore so high and barren that it wil...l seem he has been separated from his human kind forever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"I took a good deal o' pains with his eddication, sir; let him run in the streets when he was wery young, and shift for his-self. ...It's the only way to make a boy sharp, sir."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The chief thing about a woman--who is much of a woman--is that in the long run she is not to be had.... She is not to be caught by... any of the catch-words, love, beauty, honor, duty, worth, work, salvation--none of them--not in the long run. In the long run she only says "Am I satisfied, or is there some beastly unsatisfaction gnawing and gnawing inside me." And if there is some unsatisfaction, it is physical, at least as much as psychic, sex as much as soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since the Civil War its six states have produced fewer political ideas, as political ideas run in the Republic, than any average c...ounty in Kansas or Nebraska.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We endeavour more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths..., in what manner soever. It seemeth that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Such thought such though have I that hold it tight Till meditation master all its parts,... Nothing can stay my glance Until that glance run in the world's despite To where the damned have howled away their hearts, And where the blessed dance....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »