Experience was to be taken as showing that one might get a five-pound note as one got a light for a cigarette; but one had to chec...k the friendly impulse to ask for it in the same way.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
'Be proud! for she is saved, and all have helped to save her! She that lifts up the manhood of the poor,... She of the open soul and open door, With room about her hearth for all mankind! The fire is dreadful in her eyes no more; From her bold front the helm she doth unbind, Sends all her handmaid armies back to spin, And bids her navies, that so lately hurled Their crashing battle, hold their thunders in, Swimming like birds of calm along the unharmful shore. No challenge sends she to the elder world, That looked askance and hated; a light scorn Plays o'er her mouth, as round her mighty knees She calls her children back, and waits the morn Of nobler day, enthroned between her subject seas.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Look not too long in the face of the fire, O man! Never dream with thy hand on the helm! Turn not they back to the compass; accept... the first hint of the hitching tiller; believe not the artificial fire, when its redness makes all things look ghastly.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Other nations have tried to check ... the fulfillment of our manifest destiny to overspread the continent allotted by Providence f...or the free development of our yearly multiplying millions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The myth of superwoman has hung on long after the media stopped airing fantasy-based commercials about working women's lives: Here... she comes, home from the office after 12 hours of high-powered negotiations in the executive suite. Her designer suit is still fresh and unwrinkled, her face radiant and unlined as she opens her arms to greet her two adorable children--and sends a seductive glance toward her handsome husband, beaming proudly in the background. Watch her as, with one smooth motion, she slips off her jacket and into a dainty apron as she glides toward the spotless kitchen to create a three-course meal for her beloved family. After dinner she will check the children's French homework and read them a chapter of Jane Eyre before tucking the little cherubs into bed. While her husband watches the late-night news, she will disappear into the den to make an overseas call that will clinch a multinational deal for her company.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It would be worth the while to select our reading, for books are the society we keep; to read only the serenely true; never statis...tics, nor fiction, nor news, nor reports, nor periodicals, but only great poems, and when they failed, read them again, or perchance write more. Instead of other sacrifice, we might offer up our perfect (teleia) thoughts to the gods daily, in hymns or psalms. For we should be at the helm at least once a day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They make a great ado nowadays about hard times; but I think that ... this general failure, both private and public, is rather occ...asion for rejoicing, as reminding us whom we have at the helm,--that justice is always done. If our merchants did not most of them fail, and the banks too, my faith in the old laws of the world would be staggered.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Stern Daughter of the Voice of God! O Duty! if that name thou love,... Who art a light to guide, a rod To check the erring, and reprove;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is useless to check the vain dunce who has caught the mania of scribbling, whether prose or poetry, canzonets or criticisms,--l...et such a one go on till the disease exhausts itself. Opposition like water, thrown on burning oil, but increases the evil, because a person of weak judgment will seldom listen to reason, but become obstinate under reproof.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »