Into these tiger hills I venture. S513 Only being able to endure the bitterest of all things bitter, will one become the greatest man of all men. S514 if you wish to enjoy a grander sight, climb to a greater height. S515 Having reached the water's edge and there is no more ...
a summer night when the roses had an unearthly pallor under a half-eaten moon, whose ghostliness was somehow one with their perfume and with the phosphorescence of dew tipping their petals; a day when the trees stood part submerged in fog, into which leaves dropped slowly, slowly, one after...
there is probably lots of dynamic weather going on inside. Innocent clouds look like billowy cotton, not towers. If the clouds start to swell and take on a gray tint, they’re probably turning into thunderstorms. Watch out!
There are many weavers, who work into the pattern the experience of their lives. When one generation goes, another comes to take up the weft where it has been dropped. The pattern changes as the mind changes, yet never begins quite anew. At first, we are not sure that we discern the ...
swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance - and every gesture, every pose, vanishing into the thin unpopulated air. We ransomed our dignity to the clouds, and the uncomprehending birds ...
From the 50,000 idioms, 96% consists of exactly 4Hanzi characters. Of the remaining, some idioms are 3 characters, and some are much longer. This idiom almost looks like a sentence, divided into two parts separated by commas: “只许州官放火,不许百姓点灯 Zhǐxǔ zhōuguān fànghuǒ,...
was seared into the American consciousness on May 6, 1937, when the Hindenburg, a German Zeppelin airship, exploded over Lakehurst, N.J. It's still unclear what exactly doomed the massive Hindenburg, which was about the size of the Titanic, but its destruction signaled the end of the era...
Fizzies were tablets that could be dropped into a cup of water to add instant (and very temporary) carbonation and fruit flavor. The Emerson Drug Company sold the sugar-free, flavored tablets to wide public appeal, and by 1968, the product was selling twice as much as Kool-Aid. Unfortunate...
The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress. Calmness is the criterion of spiritual progress. Plunge the purified mind into the Heart. Then the work is over.– Sri Ramanna Maharshi ...
"Doing a line..." = has two meanings, depending on your age: (over forties = )having a relationship; (under forty) = taking a white, illegal substance which is firstly spread into a thin line before inhaling through the nose.