To one who is accustomed to thinking a lot, every new thought that he hears or reads about immediately appears as a link in a chai...n.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O thou day o' th' world, Chain mine armed neck, leap thou, attire and all,... Through proof of harness to my heart, and there Ride on the pants triumphing!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents,... each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our Sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our Senses. It fills the Mind with the largest Variety of Ideas, converse...s with its Objects at the greatest Distance, and continues the longest in Action without being tired or satiated with its proper Enjoyments. The Sense of Feeling can indeed give us a Notion of Extension, Shape, and all other Ideas that enter at the Eye, except Colours; but at the same time it is very much straightened and confined in its Operations, to the Number, Bulk, and Distance of its particular Objects. Our Sight seems designed to supply all these Defects, and may be considered as a more delicate and diffusive kind of Touch, that spreads its self over an infinite Multitude of Bodies, comprehends the largest Figures, and brings into our reach some of the most remote Parts of the Universe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are living in the machine age. For the first time in history the comedian has been compelled to supply himself with jokes and c...omedy material to compete with the machine. Whether he knows it or not, the comedian is on a treadmill to oblivion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The banners flashing through the trees Make their blood dance and chain their eyes;... That bugle-music on the breeze Arrests them with a charm'd surprise. Banner by turns and bugle woo: Ye shy recluses, follow too!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you need a certain vitality you can only supply it yourself, or there comes a point, anyway, when no one's actions but your own... seem dramatically convincing and justifiable in the plot that the number of your days concocts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Kicking his mother until she let go of his soul Has given his a healthy appetite: clearly, her role... In the New Order must be To supply and deliver his raw materials free;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their po...wer, which no subsequent connections can supply; and it must be by a long and unnatural estrangement, by a divorce which no subsequent connection can justify, if such precious remains of the earliest attachments are ever entirely outlived.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that e...lasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from Nature alone. It was the choicest gift of heaven.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »