We occasionally rested in the shade of a maple or a willow, and drew forth a melon for our refreshment, while we contemplated at o...ur leisure the lapse of the river and of human life; and as that current, with its floating twigs and leaves, so did all things pass in review before us, while far away in cities and marts on this very stream, the old routine was proceeding still. There is, indeed, a tide in the affairs of men, as the poet says, and yet as things flow they circulate, and the ebb always balances the flow. All streams are but tributary to the ocean, which itself does not stream, and the shores are unchanged, but in longer periods than man can measure. Go where we will, we discover infinite change in particulars only, not in generals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I came out of prison,--for some one interfered, and paid that tax,--I did not perceive that great changes had taken place on ...the common ... and yet a change had to my eyes come over the scene,--the town, and State, and country,--greater than any that mere time could effect. I saw yet more distinctly the State in which I lived. I saw to what extent the people among whom I lived could be trusted as good neighbors and friends; that their friendship was for summer weather only; that they did not greatly propose to do right; that they were a distinct race from me by their prejudices and superstitions, as the Chinamen and Malays are; that in their sacrifices to humanity they ran no risks, not even to their property; that after all they were not so noble but they treated the thief as he had treated them, and hoped, by a certain outward observance and a few prayers, and by walking in a particular straight though useless path from time to time, to save their souls. This may be to judge my neighbors harshly; for I believe that many of them are not aware that they have such an institution as the jail in their village.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain he...ight there is no change.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The primary imperative for women who intend to assume a meaningful and decisive role in today's social change is to begin to perce...ive themselves as having an identity and personal integrity that has as strong a claim for being preserved intact as that of any other individual or group.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one: Inconstancy unnaturally hath begot... A constant habit; that when I would not I change in vows, and in devotion. As humorous is my contrition As my profane Love, and as soon forgot: As ridlingly distempered, cold and hot,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Any rich, unprogressive old party with that particularly grasping, acquisitive form of mentality known as financial genius can own... a paper that is the intellectual meat and drink of thousands of tired, hurried men, men too involved in the business of modern living to swallow anything but predigested food. For two cents the voter buys his politics, prejudices, and philosophy. A year later there is a new political ring or a change in the paper's ownership, consequence: more confusion, more contradiction, a sudden inrush of new ideas, their tempering, their distillation, the reaction against them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, ha...s been labeled Utopian.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That those tribes [the Sac and Fox Indians] cannot exist surrounded by our settlements and in continual contact with our citizens ...is certain. They have neither the intelligence, the industry, the moral habits, nor the desire of improvement which are essential to any favorable change in their condition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that coul...d better be changed in ourselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The appeal of the New Right is simply that it seems to promise that nothing will change in the domestic realm. People are terrifie...d of change there, because it's the last humanizing force left in society, and they think, correctly, that it must be retained.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »