Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep aff...liction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prayer is the fair and radiant daughter of all the human virtues, the arch connecting heaven and earth, the sweet companion that i...s alike the lion and the dove; and prayer will give you the key of heaven. As pure and as bold as innocence, as strong as all things are that are entire and single, this fair and invincible queen rests on the material world; she has taken possession of it; for, like the sun, she casts about it a sphere of light.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women h...e has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For public opinion does not admit that lofty rapturous laughter is worthy to stand beside lofty lyrical emotion and that there is ...all the difference in the world between it and the antics of a clown at a fair.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ah were she pitiful as she is fair, Or but as mild as she is seeming so,... Then were my hopes greater than my despair, Then all the world were heaven, nothing woe.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have now become pretty well acquainted with the sugar-growing part of Texas. The life of a planter who has a fair start in the ...world is one of the most independent imaginable. We here find the pleasures of fashionable life without its tyranny. I doubt, however, whether a person of Northern education could so far forget his home-bred notions and feelings as ever to be thoroughly Southern on the subject of slavery. We have seen none of "the horrors" so often described, but on the other hand I have seen nothing to change my Northern opinions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The chess-board is the world; the pieces are the phenomena of the universe; the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nat...ure. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A fair feeld ful of folk fand I there-betwene, Of alle maner of men, the mene and the riche,... Worching and wandringe as the world asketh. Some putte hem to plow, playede ful selde, In setting and sowing swunke ful harde, Wonne that these wastours with glotonye destroyeth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »