If the family were a container, it would be a nest, an enduring nest, loosely woven, expansive, and open. If the family were a fru...it, it would be an orange, a circle of sections, held together but separable--each segment distinct. If the family were a boat, it would be a canoe that makes no progress unless everyone paddles. If the family were a sport, it would be baseball: a long, slow, nonviolent game that is never over until the last out. If the family were a building, it would be an old but solid structure that contains human history, and appeals to those who see the carved moldings under all the plaster, the wide plank floors under the linoleum, the possibilities.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Yet dearer still that Irish hill than all the world beside; It's home, sweet home, where'er I roam, through lands and waters ...wide.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Welcome evermore to gods and men is the self-helping man. For him all doors are flung wide: him all tongues greet, all honors crow...n, all eyes follow with desire. Our love goes out to him and embraces him, because he did not need it. We solicitously and apologetically caress and celebrate him, because he held on his way and scorned our disapprobation. The gods loved him because men hated him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In all the wide gamut of human experience, nothing plays so important a part as faith.... Faith that is as broad as the heavens an...d as wide as the earth. Faith that comprehends in its vast sympathies everything human as well as divine, and carries one with the swift sure wings of the angels directly to his goal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have come to the conclusion that the closer people are to what may be called the front lines of government ... the easier it is ...to see the immediate underbrush, the individual tree trunks of the moment, and to forget the nobility the usefulness and the wide extent of the forest itself.... They forget that politics after all is only an instrument through which to achieve Government.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, young Lochinvar is come out of the West,-- Through all the wide Border his steed was the best,... And, save his good broadsword, he weapon had none,-- He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In Reason's Ear they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious Voice,... For ever singing, as they shine, The Hand that made us is Divine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... a Christian has neither more nor less rights in our association than an atheist. When our platform becomes too narrow for peop...le of all creeds and of no creeds, I myself cannot stand upon it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Do you not see that so long as society says woman has not brains enough to be a doctor, lawyer or minister, but has plenty to be a... teacher, every man of you who condescends to teach, tacitly admits before all Israel and the sun that he has no more brains than a woman?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocency, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpe...nt: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »