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jects. Reciprocal Duties of State and Subjects. Every crime destroys more Edens than our— filed under Crime
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.— filed under Disease
"Here, dearest Eve," he exclaims, "here is food." "Well," answered she, with the germ of a housewife stirring within her, "we have been so busy to-day that a picked-up dinner must serve."— filed under Eating
Perhaps, moreover, he whose genius appears deepest and truest excels his fellows in nothing save the knack of expression; he throws out occasionally a lucky hint at truths of which every human soul is profoundly though unutterably conscious.— filed under Genius
What we call real estate-the solid ground to build a house on-is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.— filed under Guilt
An unhappy gentleman, resolving to wed nothing short of perfection, keeps his heart and hand till both get so old and withered that no tolerable woman will accept them.— filed under Matrimony
Memory, Dearest. It is a suggestive idea to track those worn feet backward through all the paths they have trodden ever since they were the tender and rosy little feet of a baby, and (cold as they now are) were kept warm in his mother's hand.— filed under Memory
The fellow mixes blood with his colors. Said by GUIDO RENI of RUBENS. One picture in ten thousand, perhaps, ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation until the colors fade and blacken out of sight or the canvas rot entirely away.— filed under Occupations-Navigation
When individuals approach one another with deep purposes on both sides they seldom come at once to the matter which they have most at heart. They dread the electric shock of a too sudden contact with it.— filed under Prudence
The True Church Antiquary. Maxim 1. We do ourselves wrong, and too meanly estimate the holiness above us, when we deem that any act or enjoyment good in itself, is not good to do religiously.— filed under Religion
In truth there is no such thing in man's nature as a settled and full resolve either for good or evil, except at the very moment of execution.— filed under Resolution
Apologized to the Author for Swearing. What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to bring her close to his heart.— filed under Reverence
But when ill indeed, E'en dismissing the doctor don't always succeed. GEORGE COLMAN (the Younger) - Broad Grins. Lodgings for Single Gentlemen. St. 7. Some maladies are rich and precious and only to be acquired by the right of inheritance or purchased with gold.— filed under Sickness
So she poured out the liquid music of her voice to quench the thirst of his spirit.— filed under Singers
Science sees signs; Poetry the thing signified. J. C. AND A. W. HARE-Guesses at Truth. It [Catholicism] supplies a multitude of external forms in which the spiritual may be clothed and manifested.— filed under Symbols
Tree. And what is more melancholy than the old apple-trees that linger about the spot where once stood a homestead, but where there is now only a ruined chimney rising out of a grassy and weed-grown cellar? They offer their fruit to every wayfarer-apples that are bitter-sweet with the moral of time's vicissitude.— filed under Trees And Plants-Acacia