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Follow the stream; we know not its course, but we know that if we go with it, though it be a wayward and tricksy guide, it will bring us out but not too soon, we hope! Here is a lumberman's dam, broad-based, solid, and ugly, a work of infinite labour, standing lonely, deserted, here in the heart of the wilderness. Now we must carry across it. But it shall help while it hinders us.
"Well, I am glad to see you here, for we thought that the owner of the horse might be no longer among the living. The panther we killed, but the two jaguars made off, and we tracked them hither to the spring, which your fire now hinders them from approaching.
"Are you Thea?" I asked trembling. The veils inclined in affirmation. "Where do you dwell?" The veils waved, shaken by the trembling limbs. "Ask me after other things," a muffled voice said. "Why do you no longer appear to me?" "I may not." "Who hinders you?" "You." ... "By what? Am I unworthy of you?" "Yes." In deep contrition I was about to fall at her feet.
Ah, woe to the man who serves God as that son served his father, with a mercenary mind and an unbroken heart, who thinks his obedience praiseworthy, and would be surprised if it should go without reward. The elder son was lost as well as the younger; but as far as the parable reveals his history, he was not like him found again: he, like his brother, went astray; but unlike him, refused to come back. The father was grieved as much by the sullen, dry, hard, cold, dead formality of his elder son, as by the prodigal wastefulness of the younger, without getting the sorrow balanced by a subsequent joy. Whited sepulchre! what will thy residence in the house, and thy constant and punctilious profession avail thee while thou art planting daggers in thy father's heart, and nursing vile hypocrisy in thy own? It is the empty open vessel that gets itself filled when it is plunged into a well of living water; the vessel that is full and shut, although it is overflowed by rivers of privileges, does not receive and retain a drop. Before God and under the Gospel, the turning-point of each man's destiny is not the number or the aggravation of his sins, but the discovery of his own guilt, and the consequent cry out of the depths for mercy. That which really in the last resort hinders a man's salvation and secures his doom is not his sin, but his refusal to know and own that he is a sinner. All the excesses of the prodigal will not shut him out of heaven, for he came repenting to the father; but all the virtues of the elder brother will not let him into heaven, for he cherished pride in his heart, and taunted his father for overlooking his worth. The ground on which the Laodiceans were condemned was not the sinfulness of their state, but their stolid satisfaction with the state they were in. "Because thou sayest, I am rich and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked" (Rev.
Society will pardon much to genius and special gifts, but, being in its nature a convention, it loves what is conventional, or what belongs to coming together. That makes the good and bad of manners, namely what helps or hinders fellowship. For fashion is not good sense absolute, but relative; not good sense private, but good sense entertaining company.
By whiles this hermaphrodite seems to respond to the affection of each admirer, and by whiles to withdraw on to a higher plane of existence whither their mortality hinders them from following.
Let her also take care of lacing herself too straitly, but give herself more liberty than she used to do; for inclosing her belly in too strait a mould, she hinders the infant from taking its free growth, and often makes it come before its time. Rules for the Fourth Month.
The institution of a leisure class hinders cultural development immediately by the inertia proper to the class itself, through its prescriptive example of conspicuous waste and of conservatism, and indirectly through that system of unequal distribution of wealth and sustenance on which the institution itself rests.
For, if any one should concede to him who admits even more than you do, and should grant to him that not only did our soul exist before we were born, but that even when we die nothing hinders the souls of some of us from still existing, and continuing to exist hereafter, and from being often born, and dying again for so strong is it by nature, that it can hold out against repeated births if he granted this, he would not yet concede that it does not exhaust itself in its many births, and at length perish altogether in some one of the deaths.
I don't know in the least where we are, and I hardly know stem from stern aboard ship; and the captain may be right or wrong that's nothing to me; but this I know, that I am a soldier, and will obey orders; and where he goes, I go; and whosoever hinders me must walk up my sword to do it." Amyas pressed Cary's hand, and then "And here's my broadside next, men.
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