With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to f...inish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves, and with all nations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It isn't that you subordinate your ideas to the force of the facts in autobiography but that you construct a sequence of stories t...o bind up the facts with a persuasive hypothesis that unravels your history's meaning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fasten your hair with a golden pin, And bind up every wandering tress;... I bade my heart build these poor rhymes: It worked at them, day out, day in, Building a sorrowful loveliness Out of the battles of old times.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let Rome in Tiber melt and the wide arch Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space.... Kingdoms are clay; our dungy earth alike Feeds beast as man. The nobleness of life Is to do thus; when such a mutual pair And such a twain can do 't, in which I bind, On pain of punishment, the world to weet We stand up peerless.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Go bind thou up young dangling apricots Which, like unruly children, make their sire... Stoop with oppression of their prodigal weight. Give some supportance to the bending twigs. Go thou, and like an executioner Cut off the heads of too-fast-growing sprays That look too lofty in our commonwealth. All must be even in our government. You thus employed, I will go root away The noisome weeds which without profit suck The soil's fertility from wholesome flowers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have done a great deal of work, as much as a man, but did not get so much pay. I used to work in the field and bind grain, keepi...ng up with the cradler; but men doing no more, got twice as much pay.... We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while,... So, pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag, And smile, smile, smile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »