Americans see history as a straight line and themselves standing at the cutting edge of it as representatives for all mankind. The...y believe in the future as if it were a religion; they believe that there is nothing they cannot accomplish, that solutions wait somewhere for all problems, like brides.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On Wenlock Edge the wood's in trouble; His forest fleece the Wrekin heaves;... The gale, it plies the saplings double, And thick on Severn snow the leaves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a horse comes to the edge of the cliff, it is too late to draw rein; when a boat reaches midstream, it is too late to stop th...e leaks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The American mind exasperated the European as a buzz-saw might exasperate a pine-forest. The English mind disliked the French mind... because it was antagonistic, unreasonable, perhaps hostile, but recognized it as at least a thought. The American mind was not a thought at all; it was a convention, superficial, narrow, and ignorant; a mere cutting instrument, practical, economical, sharp and direct. The English themselves hardly conceived that their mind was either economical, sharp or direct; but the defect that most struck an American was its enormous waste in eccentricity. Americans needed and used their whole energy, and applied it with close economy; but English society was eccentric by law and for sake of the eccentricity itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women were formed to temper Mankind, and sooth them into Tenderness and Compassion; not to set an Edge upon their Minds, and blow ...up in them those Passions which are too apt to rise of their own Accord.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Desert rains are usually so definitely demarked that the story of the man who washed his hands in the edge of an Arizona thunder s...hower without wetting his cuffs seems almost credible.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The self-consciousness of Pine Ridge manifests itself at the village's edge in such signs as "Drive Keerful," "Don't Hit Our Young... 'uns," and "You-all Hurry Back"Mlocutions which nearly all Arkansas hill people use daily but would never dream of putting in print.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... even I am growing accustomed to slavery; so much so that I cease to think of its accursed influence and calmly eat from the ha...nds of the bondman without being mindful that he is such. O, Slavery, hateful thing that thou art thus to blunt the keen edge of conscience!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »