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Here, for instance, is a person who is going out; he locks the door and shakes it; but when he has gone a few steps he is assailed by doubt: did he fasten the door? He knows that he did, he perfectly remembers having shaken it, but an irresistible impulse makes him go back to see if the door is really fastened.
Who knows but that she too had a son coming to see her from a distance, at that very time?’ ‘Who knows, indeed?’ said the man. ‘Ah, I am afraid my mother is dead. Well, God’s will be done.’ ‘However,’ said I, ‘I should not wonder at your finding your mother alive.’ ‘You wouldn’t?’ said the man, looking at me wistfully.
Now in the triangle QAS, which is right-angled, one knows also the angle A, which is 52 degrees 30 minutes, and the side AQ 50 degrees 56 minutes; whence the side SQ is found to be 45 degrees 20 minutes.
"Incredible! only so many hours, minutes left so far as any mortal knows of living, thinking, recollecting, of all that makes us something as against the nothing of death and a man wastes them in sleep, in that which is only meant for the ease and repair of the daily struggle. And Minta her husband is her all to-morrow she will have no husband; yet she sleeps, and I have helped to make her. Ah!
"Why?" "'Cause 'ren''s nothing at all," was the reply. "Good! Very good indeed! You certainly have a brilliant mind. Do you know why two and two make four?" "No," said Button-Bright. "Clever! clever indeed! Of course you don't know. Nobody knows why; we only know it's so, and can't tell why it's so. Button-Bright, those curls and blue eyes do not go well with so much wisdom.
Tell one man to concentrate his mind on a difficult problem until he has worked it out, he will clinch his fists, tighten his throat, hold his teeth hard together, and contract nobody knows how many more muscles in his body, burning and wasting fuel in a hundred or more places where it should be saved. This is not concentration.
The stone work also is beautiful; the mullions of the windows and the thick tracery of the Gothic workmanship is as rich as fancy can desire; and though in gazing on such a structure one knows by rule that the old priests who built it, built it wrong, one cannot bring oneself to wish that they should have made it other than it is.
I daresay she knows that things are safe enough. Medler the lawyer is not the kind of party to be cheated out of sixpence. He has taken an inventory of every article in the place, and the weight and value of every article. Your friend Mrs. Holbrook needn't be afraid. I suppose she's some relation of yours, by-the-bye, sir, judging by the interest you seem to take in her affairs?"
Who knows how much Aurelius and how much the world may have gained from such conversation as this with a mother from whom he had learnt to hate even the thought of evil?
I always did like to talk to a sensible man. "Henry, that man belongs to the devil." "There is no doubt about that," I replied. "He is not ashamed of it." "Not a bit ashamed." "Whom do you belong to?" "I belong to the Lord Jesus Christ." "Are you glad or sorry?" "I am glad very glad." "Who in the car knows that man belongs to the devil?" "Everybody knows that, for he has not kept it a secret."
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