Soon, in all parts of our country, in each neglected village, or new settlement, the Christian female teacher will quietly take he...r station, collecting the ignorant children around her, teaching them habits of neatness, order and thrift; opening the book of knowledge, inspiring the principles of morality, and awakening the hope of immortality. Soon her influence in the village will create a demand for new laborers, and then she will summon from among her friends at home, the nurse for the young and sick, the seamstress and the mantuamaker; and these will prove her auxiliaries in good moral influence, and in sabbath school training. And often as the result of these labors, the Church will arise, and the minister of Christ be summoned to fill up the complement of domestic, moral and religious blessing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The orator distrusts at first the fitness of his frank confessions,--his want of knowledge of the persons he addresses,--until he ...finds that he is the complement of his hearers;Mthat they drink his words because he fulfils for them their own nature; the deeper he dives into his privatest, secretest presentiment, to his wonder he finds, this is the most acceptable, most public, and universally true. The people delight in it; the better part of every man feels, This is my music; this is myself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and... release, rise and fall.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As for butterflies, I can hardly conceive of one's attending upon you; but to question... the congruence of the complement is vain, if it exists.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the o...ne to complement the other.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the Ovarian Theory of Literature, or, rather, its complement, the Testicular Theory. A recent camp follower ... of this explic...it theory is ... Norman Mailer, who has attributed his own gift, and the literary gift in general, solely and directly to the possession of a specific pair of organs. One writes with these organs, Mailer has said ... and I have always wondered with what shade of ink he manages to do it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »