What incredible insanity is driving us to hold this child, to glorify the grossness of our materialism as if you can buy the soul of a child,
What incredible insanity is driving us to hold this child, to glorify the grossness of our materialism as if you can buy the soul of a child,
Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.
In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed and safe within its central heart, Nestles the seed of perfection.
Vice itself lost half its evil by losing all its grossness.
No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.
I was three or four
times in the thought they were not fairies; and yet the
guiltiness of my mind, the sudden surprise of my powers,
drove the grossness of the foppery into a receiv'd belief,
in despite of the teeth of all rhyme and reason, that they
were fairies.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories