She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.
She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception.
The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same.
Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures.
When Squire Cass's standing dishes diminished in plenty and freshness, his guests had nothing to do but to walk a little higher up the village to Mr. Osgood's, at the Orchards, and they found hams and chines uncut, pork-pies with the scent of the fire in them, spun butter in all its freshness--everything, in fact, that appetites at leisure could desire, in perhaps greater perfection, though not in greater abundance, than at Squire Cass's.
Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.
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