The winning of a pawn among good players of even strength often means the winning of the game.
Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!
I love thee, I love but thee, With a love that shall not die.
With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!
Learn to live, and live to learn, Ignorance like a fire doth burn, Little tasks make large return.
By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.
The most annoying of all blockheads is a well-read fool.
The power of nonviolence is not circumstance-specific. It is as applicable to the problems that confront us now, as to problems that confronted generations in the past. It is not a medicine or a solution so much as a healing process. It is the active spiritual immune system of humanity.
But, come to think of it, there was no need to wait. Time travelers don't have to wait for anybody.
There is a lot of silence in watching somebody trying to remember things.
So we recast the wisdom of the great thinkers in the shape of our illusions. They are shiny from their makeovers, they are fabulous and gorgeous, and they want us to know that we can have it all.