Excerpts worth reading

“Any real body must have extension in four directions: it must have length, breadth, thickness, and –Duration.”

The Time Machine (H.G Wells) Pg. 2

 

“There is no difference between Time and any of the three dimensions of space except that our consciousness moves along it.”

The Time Machine (H.G Wells) Pg. 2

 

“A portrait of a man at eight years old, another at fifteen, another at seventeen, another at twenty three, and so on. All these are evidently sections, as it were, Three Dimensional representations of his Four dimensioned being, which is a fixed and unalterable thing.

The Time Machine (H.G Wells) Pg. 2

 

“Yes;  en I’s rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I’s wuth eight hund’d dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn’ want no more.”

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer’s Comrade (Mark Twain) Pg.59

 

“A man that warn’t buried was more likely to go a-ha’nting around than one that was planted and comfortable.”

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Tom Sawyer’s Comrade (Mark Twain) Pg.64

 

“We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.”

The Time Machine (HG Wells) Pg. 42

 

“If our life was not a continual warfare, we would not have taste, we would not know what is good, we would not find hearers and readers. Four-fifths of our energy is spent in the quarrel with bad taste, whether in our own minds or in the minds of others.”

Introduction to the Gitanjali (W.B Yeats) Pg.7

 

Leave this chanting and singing and telling of beads! Whom dost thou worship in this lonely dark corner of a temple with doors all shut? Open thine eyes and see thy God is not before thee!                

He is there where the tiller is tilling the hard ground and where the path maker is breaking stones. He is with them in the sun and in the shower, and his garment is covered in dust. Put of thy holy mantle and even like him come down on the dusty soil!

Deliverance? Where is this deliverance to be found? Our master himself has joyfully taken upon him the bonds of creation; he is bound with us all for ever.

Come out of thy meditations and leave aside thy flowers and incense! What harm is there if thy clothes become tattered and stained? Meet him and stand by him in toil and in sweat of thy brow.