Probability but no truth, facility but no freedom--it is owing to these two fruits that the tree of knowledge cannot be confused w...ith the tree of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most Must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth,... The Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patri...ots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Adults who still derive childlike pleasure from hanging gifts of a ready-made education on the Christmas tree of a child waiting o...utside the door to life do not realize how unreceptive they are making the children to everything that constitutes the true surprise of life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord... in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality.... Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My friends--No one, not in my situation, can appreciate my feeling of sadness at this parting. To this place, and the kindness of ...these people, I owe every thing. Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and I have passed from a young to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain with you and be every where for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only man thinning out his kind sounds through the Sabbath noon, the blind... swipe of the pruner and his knife busy about the tree of life . . .LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like to the tree of Tantalus she fled, And seeming lavish, sav'de her maydenhead.... Ne're king more sought to keepe his diademe; Than Hero this inestimable gemme.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »