“I thought for a minute, and then I got heavy, heavy boots.”
Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
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Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
“I never thought of it that way, but it does relieve God Almighty of a heavy responsibility.”
When someone pointed out to him that like Stevens himself, Andrew Johnson was a self-made man, in Selected Papers of Thaddeus Stevens
“What uniform can I wear to hide my heavy heart? It is too heavy. It will always show.”
Source: The Holy Terrors
Source: Good Morning, Midnight
Journal entry (2 March 1861), Ch. 5 : The Beginning of the War.
Lucy Larcom : Life, Letters, and Diary (1895)
Context: What does cause depression of spirits? Heavy head and heavy heart, and no sufficient reason for either, that I know of. I am out of doors every day, and have nothing unusual to trouble me; yet every interval of thought is clouded; there is no rebound, no rejoicing as it is my nature to rejoice, and as all things teach me to do. We are strange phenomena to ourselves, when we will stop to gaze at ourselves; but that I do not believe in; there are pleasanter subjects, and self is a mere speck on the great horizon of life.
