David set me to learn other skills, too, in those days of restless waiting.
Everybody else specializes. Daddy knows everything, and he puts the pieces together.
(n.) The quality or state of being open.
He never hears the truth about himself by not wishing to hear it. Pope Alexander
He was driven to use the prerogatives of his profession, to act the parson.
Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.
I could not find any evidence that her circumstances had harmed Jane Austen's work in the slightest. That, perhaps, was the chief miracle about it. Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without...
I had never been much interested in Pluto, too few facts and too much isolation.
I heard a doctor say that the living tend to withdraw emotionally from the dying, thereby driving them deeper into isolation. Not to withdraw takes tremendous strength. To pull back is a temptation; i...
If they are afraid of revision in the laboratory, truth will never be released except by accident.
It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;—it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than eno...
Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham
More depended on the student than on the school.
My growing collection of facts keeps overlapping with my life.
Opening up to your intuition represents a commitment to pay closer attention to how you think and feel.
Quite often we are led to aporia, an impasse, unable to proceed a step further. Socrates is almost always there, but even he is only a supporting character. The starring role is given to the philosoph...
The author perceives nuances of Abigail Adams' character in the occasional errors she makes in readily quoting John Milton. Rather than giving the observer a reason to quibble, they are evidence that...
The habit of mobility had become ingrained.
Walter Pater defined Romanticism as adding strangeness to beauty.
Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships.
When her daughter was frightened of a thunderstorm, the author pointed out the verse which declares the Heavens reveal the glory of God. When another storm occurred, her daughter ran to the window. Mo...
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