We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who sa...y that the well-educated alone are free.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? my Mind is divided between the... two opposite Opinions; or rather (to speak my Thoughts freely) I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To give money to a sufferer is only a come-off. It is only a postponement of the real payment, a bribe paid for silence, a credit ...system in which a paper promise to pay answers for the time instead of liquidation. We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
an age of unscrupulous and shameless book-making, it is a duty to give notice of the rubbish that cumbers the ground. There is no ...credit, no real power required for this task. It is the work of an intellectual scavenger, and far from being specially honourable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is no shame in man giving in to pain, but it is shameful for him to give in to pleasure. This is not because pain comes to u...s from outside, whilst we seek pleasure, for we may seek pain and deliberately give in to it without this sort of abasement. Why then is it to reason's credit to give in to the effect of pain, and to its shame to give into that of pleasure? It is because it is not pain that tempts and attracts us; it is we ourselves who voluntarily choose it and allow it to get the better of us, so that we are masters of the occasion, and in this it is man giving in to himself. But in pleasure it is man who gives in to pleasure. Now, glory comes only from mastery and control, shame only from subjection.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ellie: Aren't you going to give me a little credit? Peter: What for?... Ellie: Well, I proved once and for all that the limb is mightier than the thumb. Peter: Why didn't you take off all your clothes. You could have stopped forty cars. Ellie: Ooohh, I'll remember that when we need forty cars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must give Mr. Phillips the credit of being a clean, erect, and what was once called a consistent man. He at least is not respon...sible for slavery, nor for American Independence; for the hypocrisy and superstition of the Church, nor the timidity and selfishness of the State; nor for the indifference and willing ignorance of any. He stands so distinctly, so firmly, and so effectively alone, and one honest man is so much more than a host, that we cannot but feel that he does himself injustice when he reminds us of "the American Society, which he represents."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To maidens' vows and swearing Henceforth no credit give,... You may give them the hearing But never them believe. They are as false as fair, Unconstant, frail, untrue;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »