Am I in love? ... If in love, where's the sweetheart? Is it the noble-hearted F___ or the giddy, young, black-eyed E___ who fills ...my thoughts? Do feeling and judgment go together? I feel the strong longing, but not the fixed attachment which belongs to the true love. The settled object is wanting. It is useless to attempt to cast myself free from the cords which a too warm imagination throws about me. The only cure is marriage. If that is not the specific I may as well despair of ever making even a respectable figure in life; ... I am almost wholly worthless.... With me too, believing as I do, or have, that it was a part of my patrimony to be gifted with more than the ordinary allotment of what is called "common sense." I must be in the chrysalis state, neither a boy nor a man; not in love and yet not whole of heart. Well I hope I shall be safely delivered soon, for if I am not, woe to the future!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If all be true that I do think, There are five reasons we should drink:... Good wine, a friend, or being dry, Or lest we should be by and by, Or any other reason why.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally ...apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From the true antagonist illimitable courage is transmitted to you. To what indifference people may come, to what profound co...nviction of having lost the right track forever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The true colour of life is the colour of the body, the colour of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living ...heart and the pulses. It is the modest colour of the unpublished blood.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Is it true? Is it true?... I can only imagine it is true that Jesus comes with his eggful of miracles, his awful death, his blackboard full of graffiti.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love... Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »