They say princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a ...prince as soon as his groom.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I'll throw a lasso around it and pull it dow...n.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Underneath this sable hearse Lies the subject of all verse:... Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother; Death ere thou has slain another, Fair, and learned, and good as she, Time shall throw a dart at thee.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, some as soon would throw it all As throw a part away.... And some will say all sorts of things, But some mean what they say.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here come the line-gang pioneering by. They throw a forest down less cut than broken.... They plant dead trees for living, and the dead They string together with a living thread.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I shall venture to affirm, that there never was a popular religion, which represented the state of departed souls in such a light,... as would render it eligible for human kind, that there should be such a state. These fine models of religion are the mere product of philosophy. For as death lies between the eye and the prospect of futurity, that event is so shocking to nature, that it must throw a gloom on all the regions which lie beyond it; and suggest to the generality of mankind the idea of Cerberus and Furies; devils, and torrents of fire and brimstone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are three kinds of explanation in science: explanations which throw a light upon, or give a hint at a matter; explanations w...hich do not explain anything; and explanations which obscure everything.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I don't care very much for literary shrines and haunts ... I knew a woman in London who boasted that she had lodgings from the win...dows of which she could throw a stone into Carlyle's yard. And when I said, "Why throw a stone into Carlyle's yard?" she looked at me as if I were an imbecile and changed the subject.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Surely the day will come when color means nothing more than skin tone, when religion is seen uniquely as a way to speak one's soul...; when birth places have the weight of a throw of the dice and all men are born free, when understanding breeds love and brotherhood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »