We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten. We can receive anything from love, for ...that is a way of receiving it from ourselves; but not from any one who assumes to bestow. We sometimes hate the meat which we eat, because there seems something of degrading dependence in living it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The proverb warns that "You should not bite the hand that feeds you." But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourse...lf.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Punishment followed on a grand scale. For ten days, an unconscionable length of time, my father blessed the palms of his child's o...utstretched, four-year-old hands with a sharp switch. Seven strokes a day on each hand; that makes one hundred forty strokes and then some. This put an end to the child's innocence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The hand that signed the treaty bred a fever, And famine grew, and locusts came;... Great is the hand that holds dominion over Man by a scribbled name.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The hand that signed the paper felled a city; Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath,... Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country; These five kings did a king to death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He must be taught, and trained, and bid go forth: A barren-spirited fellow; one that feeds... On objects, arts, and imitations, Which, out of use and staled by other men, Begin his fashion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Vigil strange I kept on the field one night; When you my son and my comrade dropt at my side that day,... One look I but gave which your dear eyes return'd with a look I shall never forget, One touch of your hand to mine O boy, reach'd up as you lay on the ground,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It took six weeks of debate in the Senate to get the Arms Embargo Law repealed--and we face other delays during the present sessio...n because most of the Members of the Congress are thinking in terms of next Autumn's election. However, that is one of the prices that we who live in democracies have to pay. It is, however, worth paying, if all of us can avoid the type of government under which the unfortunate population of Germany and Russia must exist.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »