It is an axiom in political science that unless a people are educated and enlightened it is idle to expect the continuance of civi...l liberty or the capacity for self-government.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and prejudices tha...t will not allow them the use of that faculty. Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation, or the continuance of his species. Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There was never any thing by the wit of man so well devised, or so sure established, which in continuance of time hath not been co...rrupted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The moment the doctrine of the immortality is separately taught, man is already fallen. In the flowing of love, in the adoration o...f humility, there is no question of continuance. No inspired man ever asks this question, or condescends to these evidences. For the soul is true to itself, and the man in whom it is shed abroad cannot wander from the present, which is infinite, to a future which would be finite.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Love has meaning only insofar as it includes the idea of its continuance. Even what we rather glibly call a love affair, if it com...es to an end, may continue as a memory that is pleasing in our lives; we can renew the sense of privilege and reward of having been allowed such intimacy and sharing. But Lust dies at the next dawn, and when it returns in the evening, to search where it may, it is with its own past erased. Love wants to enjoy in other ways the human being whom it has enjoyed in bed; it looks forward to having breakfast. But in the morning Lust is always furtive. It dresses as mechanically as it undressed and heads straight for the door, to return to its own solitude.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Barnard's greatest war service ... was the continuance of full-scale instruction in the liberal arts ... It was Barnard's responsi...bility to keep alive in the minds of young people the great liberal tradition of the past and the study of philosophy, of history, of Greek.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And life, the flicker of men and moths and the wolf on the hill, Though furious for continuance, passionately feeding, passio...nately Remaking itself upon its mates, remembers deep inward The calm mother, the quietness of the womb and the egg,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We endeavour more that men should speak of us, than how and what they speak, and it sufficeth us that our name run in men's mouths..., in what manner soever. It seemeth that to be known is in some sort to have life and continuance in other men's keeping.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Honor, riches, marriage blessing, Long continuance, and increasing,... Hourly joys be still upon you! Juno sings her blessings on you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »