“Idleness is the grand Pacific Ocean of life, and in that stagnant abyss the most salutary things produce no good, the most noxious no evil. Vice, indeed, abstractedly considered, may be, and often is engendered in idleness; but the moment it becomes efficiently vice, it must quit its cradle and cease to be idle.” MayMomentsEvilProduceOceanVicesQuittingCeaseIdleAbyssIdlenessCradlePacificOften IsStagnantPacific Ocean Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Is it not better to intimate our astonishment as we pass through this world if it be only for a moment ere we are swallowed up in the yeast of the abyss? I will lift up my hands and say Kosmos.” IfsThinkingWorldMomentsHandsThis WorldLiftsIntimateAbyssAstonishmentYeast Author:Ralph Waldo Emerson
“As a child walking over a slippery and dangerous path cries out, "Father, I am falling!" and has but a moment to catch his father's hand, so every believer sees hours when only the hand of Jesus comes between him and the abysses of destruction.” ChildrenMomentsHandsFallFatherJesusChristHoursPathDangerousCryWalkingDestructionBelieverAbyssSlippery Author:Theodore L. Cuyler
“The stream of thought flows on; but most of its segments fall into the bottomless abyss of oblivion. Of some, no memory survives the instant of their passage. Of others, it is confined to a few moments, hours or days. Others, again, leave vestiges which are indestructible, and by means of which they may be recalled as long as life endures.” MayMeanLongMomentsFallHoursMemoriesFlowEndureInstantStreamsPassagesAbyssOblivionConfinedIndestructibleNo Memory Book:The Principles of Psychology Source: The Principles of Psychology