... the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their livin...g standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more a...ffluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at a commensurate speed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great object of Education should be commensurate with the object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to in...spire the youthful man with an interest in himself; with a curiosity touching his own nature; to acquaint him with the resources of his mind, and to teach him that there is all his strength, and to inflame him with a piety towards the Grand Mind in which he lives. Thus would education conspire with the Divine Providence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic con...templation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A few [women] warrant our attention not because they have the answer but because they have rejected the mentality that insists the...re must be one answer. What makes them role models is not how much or how little they work, how many or how few hats they wear, but rather how well they understand, and accept, that for all rewards there will be commensurate sacrifice; for all gains, some loss; for any pleasure, some pain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We do not concern ourselves about being esteemed in towns through which we pass. But if we are to remain a while there, we are so ...concerned. How long is necessary? A time commensurate with our vain and paltry life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »