History teaches us that the great revolutions aren't started by people who are utterly down and out, without hope and vision. They... take place when people begin to live a little better--and when they see how much yet remains to be achieved.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some of us who sit upon this platform have many a time been clamored down, and told that we had no right to speak, and that we wer...e out of our place in public meetings; far be it from us, when women assemble, and a man has a thought in his soul, burning for utterance, to retaliate upon him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ye purs, that been to me my lives light And saviour, as in this world down here,... Out of this tonne helpe me thurgh your might,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Substantial pieces of goods [were] very offensive to her Ladyship's sight. They, for their clumsiness, were discarded, and in thei...r room were placed China images and all manner of Chinese figures: some that stood still and some that, by pulling a string, might be put into such insignificant shakings and motions as made the heads of the beholders giddy.... And thus was this noble ancient castle, which in its old form struck the imagination both with dignity and simplicity, filled with such trifling gewgaws that it was dangerous to move, lest some of the clockwork trumpery should be thrown down and put out of joint.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
corolla of bleary spikes pushed down and broken like a battered crown, seeds fallen out of its face, soon-to-be- toothless mo...uth of sunny air, sunrays obliterated on its hairy head like a dried wire spiderweb,LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the c...alm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »