Girls are apt to imagine noble and enchanting and totally imaginary figures in their own minds; they have fanciful extravagant ide...as about men, and sentiment, and life; and then they innocently endow somebody or other with all the perfections for their daydreams, and put their trust in him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indic...t them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them--isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Chaucer's remarkably trustful and affectionate character appears in his familiar, yet innocent and reverent, manner of speaking of... his God. He comes into his thought without any false reverence, and with no more parade than the zephyr to his ear.... There is less love and simple, practical trust in Shakespeare and Milton. How rarely in our English tongue do we find expressed any affection for God! Herbert almost alone expresses it, "Ah, my dear God!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not rely on your own insight. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make str...aight your paths. Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the LORD, and turn away from evil. It will be a healing for your flesh and a refreshment for your body.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An identity is questioned only when it is menaced, as when the mighty begin to fall, or when the wretched begin to rise, or when t...he stranger enters the gates, never, thereafter, to be a stranger.... Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self: in which case, it is best that the garment be loose, a little like the robes of the desert, through which one's nakedness can always be felt, and, sometimes, discerned. This trust in one's nakedness is all that gives one the power to change one's robes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Now bury your bird," the wind it bawled, "And bury him down and down... Who had to put his trust in one So light-eyed and so brown...."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I trust in due time to ... lay the perfidy, meanness, and wickedness of [Henry] Clay naked before the American people. I have late...ly got an intimation of some of his secret movements, which, if I can reach with positive and responsible proof, I will wield to his political, and perhaps his actual, destruction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »