`Come, come,' said Tom's father, `at your time of life, / There's no longer excuse for thus playing the rake - / It is time you should think, boy, of taking a wife' - `Why, so it is, father - whose wife shall I take?' |
. . . the state of things and the dispositions of men were then such, that a man could not well tell whom he might trust or whom he might fear. |
'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone |
'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone; All her lovely companions Are faded and gone |
"Tell me, what's Love?" said Youth, one day, To drooping Age, who crost his way, "It is a sunny hour of play, For which repentance dear doth pay, Repentance! Repentance! And this is Love, as wise men say |
A friendship like love is warm; a love like friendship is steady. |
A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a roué to retire upon. |
An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man. |
An enchanted world is one that speaks to the soul, to the mysterious depths of the heart and imagination where we find value, love, and union with the world around us. As mystics of many religions have taught, that sense of rapturous union can give a |
And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others. |
Ask a woman's advice, and whatever she advises, Do the very reverse and you're sure to be wise |
Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms. |
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms, / Which I gaze on so fondly to-day. |
Bill Dotson holds a special place in my life, |
By confronting us with irreducible mysteries that stretch our daily vision to include infinity, nature opens an inviting and guiding path toward a spiritual life. |