The one thing that enslaves people more than any other to the servitude of war is nationalism--the patriotic cant--Religious cant ...is feeble; its on a down slope fighting to hold territory--but the patriotism--all the noxious influences of the world seem to have thrown their tentacles about it--Its the mask of all the trade-greed & the glory-breed--and the asininity that makes people insist on sacrificing themselves on the nearest altar--no matter how brazen the God above it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Another reason for the increased self-centeredness of an adolescent is her susceptibility to humiliation. This brazen, defiant cre...ature is also something tender, raw, thin-skinned, poignantly vulnerable. Her entire sense of personal worth can be shattered by a frown. An innocuous clarification of facts can be heard as a monumental criticism.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land,... Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eyes command The air-bridged harbor that twin cities frame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was almost two years ago, while awaiting the imminent birth of my second child, that I decided to start working part-time. This... would have been unthinkable to me when I was younger. At twenty-five I should have worn a big red A on my chest; it would have stood for ambition, an ambition so brazen and burning that it would have reduced Hester Prynne's transgression to pale pink.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I had rather hear a brazen canstick turned, Or a dry wheel grate on the axle-tree,... And that would set my teeth nothing on edge, Nothing so much as mincing poetry. 'Tis like the forced gait of a shuffling nag.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live registered upon our brazen tombs,... And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge, And make us heirs of all eternity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Mathematics is not a book confined within a cover and bound between brazen clasps, whose contents it needs only patience to ransac...k; it is not a mine, whose treasures may take long to reduce into possession, but which fill only a limited number of veins and lodes; it is not a soil, whose fertility can be exhausted by the yield of successive harvests; it is not a continent or an ocean, whose area can be mapped out and its contour defined: it is limitless as that space which it finds too narrow for its aspirations; its possibilities are as infinite as the worlds which are forever crowding in and multiplying upon the astronomer's gaze.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have read that on some exposed place in the city of Geneva, they have fixed a brazen indicator for the use of travelers, with t...he names of the mountain summits in the horizon marked upon it.... It stands there a piece of mute brass, that seems nevertheless to know in what vicinity it is: and there perchance it will stand, when the nation that placed it there has passed away, still in sympathy with the mountains, forever discriminating in the desert. So, we may say, stands this man, pointing as long as he lives, in obedience to some spiritual magnetism, to the summits in the historical horizon, for the guidance of his fellows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fergus rules the brazen cars, And rules the shadows of the wood,... And the white breast of the dim sea And all dishevelled wandering stars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »