You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself
Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.
With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.
I still see myself as a bit of a cottage industry. Being in a room creating stuff and seeing if anyone wants it, as opposed to going to work for someone.
True love would look a second time. True love would not be thwarted. True love would not accept no for an answer. He would search the world and certainly look again and again in every cottage in Euphrasia until he finds you.
I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.
Cottages have them (falsehood and dissimulation) as well as courts, only with worse manners.
Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry.
Surely heaven must have something of the color and shape of whatever village or hill or cottage of which the believer says, This is my own.
Trump Tower is a beacon of aesthetic appeal by comparison to what the oligarchs build in their so-called cottages outside of Moscow. So he fits right into their aesthetic, he fits right into the way they think and the way act. Except of course they're more powerful than he is.
Let new India arise out of peasants' cottage, grasping the plough, out of huts, cobbler and sweeper.
Soon Hansel and Gretel came to a little cottage. When they got quite near, they saw that the little house was made of bread and roofed with cake. The windows were transparent sugar." "There must not have been a very strict building code.
[On Denmark:] ... that little country of cottage cheese and courage.
Just as there comes a warm sunbeam into every cottage window, so comes a lovebeam of God's care and pity for every separate need.
I love to live alone in my own little cottage, where I can spend much time in prayer, etc
Every antique farm-house and moss-grown cottage is a picture.
For the Christ-child who comes is the Master of all; No palace too great, no cottage too small.
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn, Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish.
An English village could never be mistaken for an American one: the outline against the sky differs; a thatched cottage makes a very wavy line on the blue above.
If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.
Can princes born in palaces be sensible of the misery of those who dwell in cottages?
For a beggar to live at court is not so much as the King to dwell with him in his cottage.
Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of 'National Geographics,' is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in Maine, so one goes back to one's Michener.
Glory darts her soul-pervading ray on thrones and cottages, regardless still of all the artificial nice distinctions vain human customs make.
