Be on guard so that your hearts are not weighed down with dissipation and drunkenness and the worries of this life, and that day c...atch you unexpectedly, like a trap.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The spider-mind acquires a faculty of memory, and, with it, a singular skill of analysis and synthesis, taking apart and putting t...ogether in different relations the meshes of its trap. Man had in the beginning no power of analysis or synthesis approaching that of the spider, or even of the honey-bee; but he had acute sensibility to the higher forces.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Across Parker Avenue from the fort is the Site of the Old Gallows, where 83 men "stood on nothin', a-lookin' up a rope." The platf...orm had a trap wide enought to "accommodate" 12 men, but half that number was the highest ever reached. On two occasions six miscreants were executed. There were several groups of five, some quartets and trios.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The myth of motherhood as martyrdom has been bred into women, and behavioral scientists have helped embellish the myth with their ...ideas of correct "feminine" behavior. If women understand that they do not have to ignore their own needs and desires when they become mothers, that to be self-interested is not to be selfish, it will help them to avoid the trap of overattachment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The little lifting helplessness, the queer Whimper-whine; whose unridiculous... Lost softness softly makes a trap for us. And makes a curse.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a thinking person attains adulthood and develops a mature consciousness, he reluctantly feels himself in a trap from which th...ere is no exit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Arrogance rides triumphantly through the gates, barely glancing at the old woman about to cut the rope and spring shut the trap.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your pier-glass or extensive surface of polished steel ... will be minutely and multitudinously scratched in all directions; but p...lace now against it a lighted candle as a centre of illumination, and lo! the scratches will seem to arrange themselves in a fine series of concentric circles round that little sun. It is demonstrable that the scratches are going everywhere impartially, and it is only your candle which produces the flattering illusion of a concentric arrangement, its light falling with an exclusive optical selection. These things are a parable. The scratches are events, and the candle is the egoism of any person now absent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mouse-trap, than his neighbor, though he build his hous...e in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We are not very much to blame for our bad marriages. We live amid hallucinations; and this especial trap is laid to trip our feet ...with, and all are tripped up first and last. But the mighty Mother who had been so sly with us, as if she felt that she owed us some indemnity, insinuates into the Pandora-box of marriage some deep and serious benefits, and some great joys.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »