I don't want to shoot any Englishmen. I never saw one 'til I came up here. But I suppose most of them never saw a German 'til they... came up here.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Those poor farmers who came up, that day, to defend their native soil, acted from the simplest of instincts. They did not know it ...was a deed of fame they were doing. These men did not babble of glory. They never dreamed their children would contend who had done the most. They supposed they had a right to their corn and their cattle, without paying tribute to any but their governors. And as they had no fear of man, they yet did have a fear of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was never a man born so wise or good, but one or more companions came into the world with him, who delight in his faculty, a...nd report it. I cannot see without awe, that no man thinks alone and no man acts alone, but the divine assessors who came up with him into life,--now under one disguise, now under another,--like a police in citizen's clothes, walk with him, step for step, through all kingdoms of time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved... hand in mine, and said, "I hear you spoke here tonight." "Oh, it was nothing," I replied modestly. "Yes," the little old lady nodded, "that's what I heard."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The general review of the past tends to satisfy me with my political life. No man, I suppose, ever came up to his ideal. The first... half [of] my political life was first to resist the increase of slavery and secondly to destroy it.... The second half of my political life has been to rebuild, and to get rid of the despotic and corrupting tendencies and the animosities of the war, and other legacies of slavery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The sun, the hero of every day, the impersonal old man that beams as brightly on death as on birth, came up every morning and race...d across the blue dome and dipped into the sea of fire every evening. Water ran down hill and birds nested.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The news spread like wildfire among us youths, when formerly, once in a year or two, one of these boats came up the Concord River,... and was seen stealing mysteriously through the meadows and past the village. It came and departed as silently as a cloud, without noise or dust, and was witnessed by few. One summer day this huge traveler might be seen moored at some meadow's wharf, and another summer day it was not there. Where precisely it came from, or who these men were who knew the rocks and soundings better than we who bathed there, we could never tell. We knew some river's bay only, but they took rivers from end to end. They were a sort of fabulous rivermen to us. It was inconceivable by what sort of mediation any mere landsman could hold communication with them. Would they heave to, to gratify his wishes? No, it was favor enough to know faintly of their destination, or the time of their possible return.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was standing in the schoolyard waiting for a child when another mother came up to me. "Have you found work yet?" she asked. "Or ...are you still just writing?"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »