Word: cloud
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...above all console the imaginative and solitary only, and suffice to him who already suffices to himself. The thought of a god vaguely and vaporously dispersed throughout the visible creation, the conjecture of an animating principle that gives to the sunset its splendors, its passion to the storm, to cloud and wind their sympathy of form and movement, that sustains the faith of the crag in its forlorn endurance, and of the harebell in the slender security of its stem, may inspire or soothe, console or fortify, the man whose physical and mental fibre is so sensitive that, like...
...every-day life, that he should hang as fair diamonds of dew on Cambridge grass-blades as on their famous cousins of Mount Hermon. These autumn trees of ours that seem to have caught and kept the sunset in their branches till it looks as if a western evening-cloud had stretched itself in Fresh Pond meadows, are too ordinary for marvel...
...life of man on earth is like an April day. Sometimes the sky is cloudy with low hanging clouds, which in turn, feeling the warm infiuence of the sun, give way to this monarch of light, leaving great clefts in the leaden masses of cloud through which the sky shines clear and blue. In our daily life good and evil may not be mingled in equal proportion, nor can we judge the proportion of good and evil in the lives of our companions from exterior appearances, for many may be living under the blackest of clouds who are apparently enjoying...
Everything about us this year favors and justifies the second, the typical college mood. There is no reason now why any man should see a dark cloud over the University, no matter how many he may fancy about himself. Last spring brought us victory in baseball and a creditable record in rowing and general athletics. While this was going on the authorities and friends of the University were making plans for enlarging the equipment of buildings and teachers and increasing thus the usefulness of the institution. We see the outcome of their efforts in the new buildings which are actually...
Half an hour or more is spent in this social, festive circle, after which the dons break up into little parties, and go to their rooms, where they pass the time in a cloud of smoke till nearly midnight...