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It (Teaism) is essentially a worship of the Imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.
Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities.
O thou who read'st what 's written here, Commiserate the lot severe, By which, compell'd, I write them. In vain Sophia I withstand, For Anna adds her dread command; I tremble—and indite them. Blame Eve, who, feeble to withstand One single …
Why should Honesty seek any safer retreat From the lawyers or barges, odd-rot-'em? For the lawyers are just at the top of the street, And the barges are just at the bottom!
Samuel Warren, though able, yet vainest of men, Could he guide with discretion his tongue and his pen, His course would be clear for—"Ten Thousand a Year," But limited else to a brief—"Now and Then."
The human race are sons of sorrow born; And each must have his portion. Vulgar minds Refuse or cranch beneath their load: the brave Bear theirs without repining.
Who has not known ill fortune, never knew Himself, or his own virtue.
Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue: Where patience, honour, sweet humanity, Calm fortitude, take root, and strongly flourish.
Songs interwoven of lights and of laughters Borrowed from bell-birds in far forest rafters.
Welcome as waters unkissed by the summers Are the voices of bell-birds to thirsty far-comers.
The silver-voiced bell-birds, the darlings of day-time, They sing in September their songs of the May-time.
I weigh the man, not his title; 'tis not the king's stamp can make the metal better.
And with faint praises one another damn.
It is neither capital nor labor but management that brings success, since management will attract capital, and capital can employ labor.
To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.
I feel very sad, as though I had not a friend in the world.... A man is nowhere without money.... People care little about you without money.... People talk terribly. We find that we have but few friends left ... I feel sad and constantly …
How poor remembrances are statues, tombs, And other monuments that men erect To princes, which remain in closèd rooms Where but a few behold them, in respect Of Books, that to the universal eye Show how they lived; the other where they lie!
Since honour from the honourer proceeds, How well do they deserve that memorize And leave in Books, for all posterities The names of worthies and their virtuous deeds.
England is the paradise of women, the purgatory of men, and the hell of horses.
It was almost as incredible as if you fired a 15-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back and hit you.
It is just as surprising as if a gunner fired a shell at a single sheet of paper and for some reason or other the projectile bounded back again.
Radioactivity is shown to be accompanied by chemical changes in which new types of matter are being continually produced. … The conclusion is drawn that these chemical changes must be sub-atomic in character.
We see in man three elements; the material body, the life principle and the element of human personality. The last has only slowly reached its present complexity and is still far from the power and perfection that we can imagine it will …
