Cities force growth and make men talkative and entertaining, but they make them artificial. What possesses interest for us is the ...natural of each, his constitutional excellence. This is forever a surprise, engaging and lovely; we cannot be satiated with knowing it, and about it; and it is this which the conversation with Nature cherishes and guards.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, h...armless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most young black females learn to be suspicious and critical of feminist thinking long before they have any clear understanding of... its theory and politics.... Without rigorously engaging feminist thought, they insist that racial separatism works best. This attitude is dangerous. It not only erases the reality of common female experience as a basis for academic study; it also constructs a framework in which differences cannot be examined comparatively.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing is so engaging as the little domestic cares into which you appear to be entering, and as to reading it is useful for only ...filling up the chinks of more useful and healthy occupations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sometimes the children who are no problem to their parents should be looked at more closely. This is especially true if those chil...dren are extremely obedient and have few friends their own age. A good self-concept allows children to explore the world, risk engaging in conflict and failing. Children who play it safe by never disobeying or risking conflict may be telling you that they feel unqualified to face the world head-on.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, ...for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspen...ded, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe. The painter's art is more confirmed, and has nothing that corresponds with, or perhaps is equivalent to, this power and advantage of leading the mind on, till attention is totally engaged. What is done by painting must be done at one blow; curiosity has received at once all the satisfaction it can ever have. There are, however, other intellectual qualities and dispositions which the painter can satisfy and affect as powerfully as the poet; among those we may reckon our love of novelty, variety, and contrast.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There are few instances of the exercise of particular virtues which seem harder to attain to, or which appear more amiable and eng...aging in themselves, than those of moderation and the forgiveness of injuries.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Women are in bondage; their clothes are a great hindrance to their engaging in any business which will make them pecuniarily indep...endent, and since the soul of womanhood never can be queenly and noble so long as it must beg bread for its body, is it not better, even at the expense of a vast deal of annoyance, that they whose lives deserve respect and are greater than their garments should give an example by which woman may more easily work out her own emancipation?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »