A common and natural result of an undue respect for law is, that you may see a file of soldiers, colonel, captain, corporal, priva...tes, powder-monkeys, and all, marching in admirable order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very steep marching indeed, and produces a palpitation of the heart.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for ma...gic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fundamentally the male artist approximates more to the psychology of woman, who, biologically speaking, is a purely creative being... and whose personality has been as mysterious and unfathomable to the man as the artist has been to the average person.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
--First a shiver, and then a thrill, Then something decidedly like a spill,--... And the parson was sitting up on a rock, At half-past nine by the meet'n'-house clock,-- Just the hour of the Earthquake shock! MWhat do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had been to the mill and ground!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Come, I'll be friends with thee, Jack. Thou art going to the wars, and whether I shall ever see thee again or no, there is ... />nobody cares.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou hast never in thy life Showed thy dear mother any courtesy,... When she, poor hen, fond of no second brood, Has clucked thee to the wars, and safely home Loaden with honor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of my playmates, who was apprenticed to a printer, and was somewhat of a wag, asked his master one afternoon if he might go a-...fishing, and his master consented. He was gone three months. When he came back, he said that he had been to the Grand Banks, and went to setting type again as if only an afternoon had intervened.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you would learn to speak all tongues and conform to the customs of all nations, if you would travel farther than all travellers..., be naturalized in all climes, and cause the Sphinx to dash her head against a stone, even obey the precept of the old philosopher, and Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve. Only the defeated and deserters go to the wars, cowards that run away and enlist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
An entirely new factor has appeared in the social development of the country, and this factor is the Irish-American, and his influ...ence. To mature its powers, to concentrate its action, to learn the secret of its own strength and of England's weakness, the Celtic intellect has had to cross the Atlantic. At home it had but learned the pathetic weakness of nationality; in a strange land it realised what indomitable forces nationality possesses. What captivity was to the Jews, exile has been to the Irish: America and American influence have educated them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom ...that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »