To have the fear of God before our eyes, and, in our mutual dealings with each other, to govern our actions by the eternal measure...s of right and wrong:MThe first of these will comprehend the duties of religion;Mthe second, those of morality, which are so inseparably connected together, that you cannot divide these two tables ... without breaking and mutually destroying them both.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinkin...g and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular inte...rvals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us--which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The working-class ... is now issuing from its hiding-place to assert an Englishman's heaven-born privilege of doing as he likes, a...nd is beginning to perplex us by marching where it likes, meeting where it likes, bawling what it likes, breaking what it likes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cities are ... distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New Yo...rk is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
--the dark ajar, the rocks breaking with light, and undisturbed, unbreathing flame,... colorless, sparkless, freely fed on straw, and, lulled within, a family with pets, --and looked and looked our infant sight away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By now, legions of tireless essayists and op-ed columnists have dressed feminists down for making such a fuss about entering the p...rofessions and earning equal pay that everyone's attention has been distracted from the important contributions of mothers working at home. This judgment presumes, of course, that prior to the resurgence of feminism in the '70s, housewives and mothers enjoyed wide recognition and honor. This was not exactly the case.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What was he doing, the great god Pan, Down in the reeds by the river?... Spreading ruin and scattering ban, Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat, And breaking the golden lilies afloat With the dragon-fly on the river.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a tendency to discuss surrealism and cubism as if one proceeds out of the other, but in fact there is no similarity. Cubi...sm was a way of painting that a group of painters imposed on themselves, surrealism a philosophy of life put forward by a band of poets. The first was essentially a method of breaking up the object and putting it together again according to concepts of pictorial structure, a phase of the greatest importance in the development of such painters as Picasso, Braque, Marcoussis, and Gris, but affecting literature only through Apollinaire, and life hardly at all. The second was the attempt of a highly organized group to change life altogether, to make a new kind of man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've been asked to give some words of advice for young women entering library/information science education. Does anyone ever take... advice? The advice we give is usually what we would do or would have done if we had the chance, and the advice that's taken, if ever, is often what we wanted to hear in the first place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »