...no matter what happened, no one could take our heritage away from us. This heritage meant that we had strong bodies, pride, and... will power. We could never get so poor that we couldn't work our way out. Through droughts, floods, and tornadoes we could stick and work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That she was never yet that ever knew Love got so sweet as when desire did sue.... Therefore this maxim out of love I teach: Achievement is command; ungained, beseech.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women are angels, wooing; Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.... That she beloved knows naught that knows not this: Men prize the thing ungained more than it is. That she was never yet that ever knew Love got so sweet as when desire did sue. Therefore this maxim out of love I teach: Achievement is command; ungained, beseech. Then though my heart's content firm love doth bear, Nothing of that shall from mine eyes appear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I felt more than ever the necessity of my mission. But I went home out of spirits, I hardly know why. I must work by myself all li...fe long.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The foolish fears of what might happen. I cast them all away... Among the clover-scented grass, Among the new-mown hay, Among the husking of the corn, Where drowsy poppies nod Where ill thoughts die and good are born-- Out in the fields with God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Dirty fellow!" exclaimed the Captain, seizing both her wrists, "hark you, Mrs. Frog, you'd best hold your tongue; for I must make... bold to tell you, if you don't, that I shall make no ceremony of tripping you out of the window, and there you may lie in the mud till some of your Monseers come to help you out of it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America is not so much a nightmare as a non-dream. The American non-dream is precisely a move to wipe the dream out of existence. ...The dream is a spontaneous happening and therefore dangerous to a control system set up by the non-dreamers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »