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“Truly, we live with mysteries too marvelous to be understood. How grass can be nourishing in the mouths of the lambs. How rivers and stones are forever in allegiance with gravity while we ourselves dream of rising.”

Dream Forever Mystery Mouths Understood Rivers Stones Grass Rising Gravity Marvelous Allegiance Lambs

Book:Evidence: Poems

Source: Evidence: Poems

“As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and self-created wisdom, explains, comments, condemns, ordains and order things not understood, yet full of importance still holds forth to stocks and stones around - so sits and scribbles Mike.”

Stills Self Order Understood Stones Importance Wide Forests Branches Comment Mike Conceit Owl Scribbles Secluded

Book:The Life and Letters of Faraday

Source: The Life and Letters of Faraday

“The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.”

Source: Essays, English and American

“Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so that they can live austerely in some stone tower of adolescence, their privacies unviolated.”

Want Feels Children Whole Strange Ten Ambition Understood Stones Twenties Aliens Privacy Towers Adolescence Misinterpreted

Author:Phyllis McGinley

“There is no art or science that is too difficult for industry to attain to; it is the gift of tongues, and makes a man understood and valued in all countries, and by all nations; it is the philosopher's stone, that turns all metals, and even stones, into gold, and suffers not want to break into its dwelling; it is the northwest passage, that brings the merchant's ships as soon to him as he can desire: in a word, it conquers all enemies, and makes fortune itself pay contribution.”

“You must try, the voice said, to become colder. I understood at once. It's like the bodies of gods: cast in bronze, braced in stone. Only something heartless could bear the full weight.”

Trying Said Body Voice Bears Understood Stones Weight Casts Heartless Bronze

Book:The lives of the heart

Source: The lives of the heart