Change begets change. Nothing propagates so fast. If a man habituated to a narrow circle of cares and pleasures, out of which he s...eldom travels, step beyond it, though for never so brief a space, his departure from the monotonous scene on which he has been an actor of importance would seem to be the signal for instant confusion.... The mine which Time has slowly dug beneath familiar objects is sprung in an instant; and what was rock before, becomes but sand and dust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Realizing that his time was nearly spent, he gave full oral instructions about his burial and the manner in which he wished to be ...remembered.... A few minutes later, feeling very tired, he left the room, remarking, 'I have no disposition to leave this precious circle. I love to be here surrounded by my family and friends.' Then he gave them his blessing and said, 'I am ready to go and I wish you goodnight.'LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Logic, too, also rests on assumptions that do not correspond to anything in the real world, e.g., on the assumption that there are... equal things, that the same thing is identical at different points in time: but this science arose as a result of the opposite belief (that such things actually exist in the real world). And it is the same with mathematics, which would certainly never have arisen if it had been understood from the beginning that there is no such thing in nature as a perfectly straight line, a true circle, and absolute measure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A sleeping man holds in a circle around him the thread of the hours, the order of years and of worlds. He consults them instinctiv...ely upon awaking and in one second reads in them the point of the earth that he occupies, the time past until his arousal; but their ranks can be mingled or broken.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rome, like Washington, is small enough, quiet enough, for strong personal intimacies; Rome, like Washington, has its democratic co...urt and its entourage of diplomatic circle; Rome, like Washington, gives you plenty of time and plenty of sunlight. In New York we have annihilated both.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Incarnate devil in a talking snake, The central plains of Asia in his garden,... In shaping-time the circle stung awake, In shapes of sin forked out the bearded apple....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O Time and Change!--with hair as gray As was my sire's that winter day,... How strange it seems, with so much gone Of life and love, to still live on! Ah, brother! only I and thou Are left of all that circle now,-- The dear home faces whereupon That fitful firelight paled and shone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe, with a conviction based on experience, that you ...can fool all of the people all of the time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »