“The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our earthly destinies; We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors Close after us, for ever.” YearsHandsWalksDestinyForeverDoorsFairsGatesPortalIrrevocableBlindfolds Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
“When on the breath of Autumn's breeze, From pastures dry and brown, Goes floating, like an idle thought, The fair, white thistle-down; O, then what joy to walk at will, Upon the golden harvest-hill!” JoyWhiteWalksFairsBreathsGoldenHillsDryBrownAutumnIdleHarvestFloatingBreezePasturesThistles Author:Mary Howitt
“I never want anything more than what's fair. The problem is, I never want anything less either. In the old-boy school of business, if a woman walks away from the table with what's rightfully hers, the man feels screwed.” IfsMenWantFeelsProblemSchoolWalksBoysHe ManFairsTables Author:Dolly Parton
“On turf and curb and bower-roof The snow-storm spreads its ivory woof; It paves with pearl the garden-walk; And lovingly around the tatter'd stalk And snivering stem its magic weaves A mantle fair as lily-leaves.” WalksMagicFairsGardenSpreadStormSnowRoofStemPearlsLiliesStalkingCurbIvoryTurfSnow Storms Author:John Townsend Trowbridge
“... woman's cause is the cause of the weak; and when all the weak shall have received their due consideration, then woman will have her "rights," and the Indian will have his rights, and the Negro will have his rights, and all the strong will have learned at last to deal justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly; and our fair land will have been taught the secret of universal courtesy which is after all nothing but the art, the science, and the religion of regarding one's neighbor as one's self, and to do for him as we would, were conditions swapped, that he do for us.” Has BeensArtSelfLastsStrongCausesJusticeWalksDealsSecretRightsLandConditionsTaughtFairsWeakMercyUniversalSocial JusticeDuesNeighborIndianConsiderationCourtesyStrong Will Author:Anna Julia Cooper
“The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our earthly destinies; We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors Close after us, for ever. Pause, my soul, On these strange words - for ever - whose large sound Breaks flood-like, drowning all the petty noise Our human moans make on the shores of Time. O Thou that openest, and no man shuts; That shut'st, and no man opens - Thee we wait!” MenYearsHumansSoulHandsWaitingSoundWalksBreakDestinyDoorsStrangeFairsNoiseMy SoulTheeGatesShoreFloodPausesPettyDrowningPortalIrrevocableBlindfoldsFlood Likes Author:Dinah Maria Murlock Craik