Will Christian
Will Christian
apples expectations way
There is no sense of weariness like that which closes in a day of eager and unintermittent pursuit of pleasure. The apple is eaten, but "the core sticks in the throat." Expectation has then given way to ennui, appetite to satiety.
sarcasm mind irony
At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.
passion kissing heaven
Passion looks not beyond the moment of its existence. Better, it says, the kisses of love to day, than the felicities of heaven afar off.
passion mountain genuine
A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.
causes matrimony enterprising
Marriage, by making us more contented, causes us often to be less enterprising.
talking wells depends
Whether one talks well depends very much upon whom he has to talk to.
evening action muse
We should round every day of stirring action with an evening of thought. We learn nothing of our experience except we muse upon it.
years today live-love
Talk less about the years to come, Live, love labor more today.
way generations passing
To death we owe our life; the passing of one generation opens a way for another.
pushing invisible graves
He that shrinks from the grave with too great a dread, has an invisible fear behind him pushing him into it.
taken loss greatness
What is taken from the fortune, also, may haply be so much lifted from the soul. The greatness of a loss, as the proverb suggests, is determinable, not so much by what we have lost, as by what we have left.
mind lightning brilliant
The most brilliant flashes of wit come from a clouded mind, as lightning leaps only from an obscure firmament.
winter night vegetation
Winter is the night of vegetation.
excellence distinction pursuit
The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.