But as soon as one is at rest in this world off he goes on something else to worry about.
But as soon as one is at rest in this world off he goes on something else to worry about.
But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done.
His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once.
How empty is theory in the presence of fact!
I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself.
People talk about beautiful relationships between two persons of the same sex. What is the best of that sort as compared with the friendship of man and wife where the best impulses and highest ideals of both are the same? There is no place for comparison between the two friendships; the one is earthly, the other divine.
The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.
Their very imagination was dead. When you can say that of a man he has struck bottom... there is no lower deep for him.
Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from their piteous and wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself to see the desolation wrought.
You can't throw too much style into a miracle.
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