The man who gets bit twice by the same dog is better adapted for that kind of business than any other.
Sin we have explain'd away; Unluckily, the sinners stay.
Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.
Before a day was over, Home comes the rover, For mother's kiss - sweeter this Than any other thing!
Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day.
Four ducks on a pond, A grass-bank beyond, A blue sky of spring, White clouds on the wing: What a little thing To remember for years - To remember with tears!.
Pluck not the wayside flower; It is the traveler's dower.
What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consiousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet to die. It seems like a hoax, which is why one type of cultural man rebels openly against the idea of God. What kind of deity would crate such a complex and fancy worm food?
We have to start listening to nature now.
So the political choice today is much like the 1930s, when the global economy also broke down. The choice is between nationalism and populism on the right, or socialism reviving what used to be left-wing politics.
Originally man was made in the image of God, but now his likeness to God is a stolen one. As the image of God man draws his life entirely from his origin in God, but the man who has become like God has forgotten how he was at his origin and has made himself his own creator and judge.