This land is a little land; too much shut up within the narrow seas, as it seems, to have much space for swelling into hugeness. . . .

My advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It's harder than it sounds.

We purchased land, had it developed, and it was ready to go for a company that would be coming in the area.

Cherish that which is within you, and shut off that which is without; for much knowledge is a curse

And is there any moral shut/ Within the bosom of the rose?

When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to shut out hope, there seems to be a principle within us by which we look with misanthropic composure on the state to which we are reduced, and the heart sullenly contracts and accommodates itself to what it most abhorred.