“The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.”
Source: Roughing It
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American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes
“Thought forms in the soul the same way clouds form in the air.”
“Courage is in the air in bracing whiffs
Better than all the stalemate an's and ifs.”
For John F. Kennedy His Inauguration also known as Dedictation (1960)
1960s, Dedication (1960)
“Air that has been much quarreled in becomes very hard to breathe.”
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Love is all around you like the air and is the very breath of your being.”
Knowing Yourself: The True in the False (1996)
Context: Love is all around you like the air and is the very breath of your being. But you cannot know it, feel its unfeeling touch, until you pause in your busy-ness, are still and poised and empty of your wanting and desiring. When at rest the air is easily offended and will flee even from the fanning of a leaf, as love flees from the first thought. But when the air or love moves of its own accord it is a hurricane that drives all before it.
“Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.”
Terry Gifford, EWDB, page 253
Source: 1860s, My First Summer in the Sierra, 1869
“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.”
Source: The Living
“there are policemen in the street
and angels in the clouds”
Source: The People Look Like Flowers at Last
The Use of Life (1894), ch. IV: Recreation