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How long shall we Spiritualists be turned over like so many scapegoats to the unbelievers, by cheating mediums and speculating prophets?
There it is, fog, atmospheric moisture still uncertain in destination, not quite weather and not altogether mood, yet partaking of both.
NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.
Home is a place not only of strong affections, but of entire unreserve; it is life's undress rehearsal, its backroom, its dressing room.
I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.
I, who have never heard a sound, tell you there is no silence, and I, who have never seen a ray of light, tell you there is no darkness.
It's not what you paint. It's how you paint it. You don't have to paint elaborate things. Paint simple things as beautifully as you can.
Humble prayer to our Heavenly Father, in deep faith in Jesus Christ, is essential to qualify us for the companionship of the Holy Ghost.
O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.
It is truly enough said that a corporation has no conscience, but a corporation of conscientious men is a corporation with a conscience.
There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.
A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen.
I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake,I pray?
The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands.
Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.
When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself to my instinct to decide for me.
If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.
You must converse much with the field and the woods if you would imbibe such health into your mind and spirit as you covet for your body
Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.
I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.
But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.
Genius is a light which makes the darkness visible, like the lightning's flash, which perchance shatters the temple of knowledge itself.
The child should have the advantage of ignorance as well as of knowledge, and is fortunate if he gets his share of neglect and exposure.
If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at the Highland Light, inTruro.
The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
There is a time when we must firmly choose the course which we will follow or the endless drift of events will make the decision for us.
Zeus it seems has given us from youth to old age a nice ball of wool to wind-nothing but wars upon wars until we shall perish every one.
There are two things every woman really wants: one, she wants to know that a man really loves her, and two, that he isn't going to stop.
I've already worked on at least a dozen dream books. I'm definitely not starving for something, like, "Agh, if only!" It's the opposite.
I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day.
He that is purified by love is pure; and he that is absorbed in the Beloved and hath abandoned all else is a Sufi.Sirdar Ikbal Ali Shah.
In order to be the master of your life, you must first recognize that you are the rightful master of your brain, its owner and operator.
Never let 'em see you sweat. Guests feel guilty if they think you've worked too hard to make dinner for them - which of course you have!
Nothing is more maddening than being questioned by the object of one's interest about the object of hers, should that object not be you.
Scientific apparatus offers a window to knowledge, but as they grow more elaborate, scientists spend ever more time washing the windows.
Human beings sometimes find a kind of pleasure in nursing painful emotions, in blaming themselves without reason or even against reason.
There is not a discovery in science, however revolutionary, however sparkling with insight, that does not arise out of what went before.
One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason.
Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.
Where a pack of monkeys had traveled over the road, the smell of them lingered for a long time in the air, a dry and stale, mousy smell.
True, Putin's Russia does not dream of joining the E.U., but Russia's stability depends on preserving the European nature of its regime.
We have a mission to others--to add to their cheer. This we cannot do unless we have first learned the lesson of cheerfulness ourselves.
Without action, words are just words. Without violence, laws are just words. Violence isn’t the only answer, but it is the final answer.
I'm complicated, sentimental, lovable, honest, loyal, decent, generous, likable, and lonely. My personality is not split; it's shredded.
One of the ways we'll know that Work-Out has been successful is that my style of leadership will no longer be tolerated in this company.
How many McDonald's gift certificates would it take to sway a lot of Americans to pledge to never publicly criticize the U.S, President?
I'm very optimistic about the future. I'm just not optimistic about the skyscraper as a building typology that is suited for the future.
Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns.
Power: The ability to force or coerce someone to do your will, even if they would choose not to, because of your position or your might.
If you are approaching the music with more reverence than the original guys invested into it, you are effectively doing it a disservice.