Slavery and servility have produced no sweet-scented flower annually, to charm the senses of men, for they have no real life: they... are merely a decaying and a death, offensive to all healthy nostrils. We do not complain that they live, but that they do not get buried. Let the living bury them; even they are good for manure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination--everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignor...ant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, th...e consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unbreachable the fort Of the long-batter'd world uplifts its wall;... And strange and vain the earthly turmoil grows, And near and real the charm of thy repose, And night as welcome as a friend would fall.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The post-office had a great charm at one period of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are n...ever worth going through the rain for.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But no. Too soon I voun' my charm abroke. Noo comely soul in white like her--... Noo soul a-steppen light like her-- An' nwone o' comely height like her-- Went by; but all my grief agean awoke.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 »