I saw the man my friend ... wants pardoned, Thomas Flinton. He is a bright, good-looking fellow.... Of his innocence all are confi...dent. The governor strikes me as a man seeking popularity, who lacks the independence and manhood to do right at the risk of losing popularity. Afraid of what will be said. He is prejudiced against the Irish and Democrats.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ah, Governor [Murphy, of New Jersey], don't try to deceive me as to the sentiment of the dear people. I have been hearing from the... West and the East, and the South seems to be the only section which approves of me at all, and that comes from merely a generous impulse, for even that section would deny me its votes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 am and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 pm to make th...is molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now h...igh time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the storm rattles my windowpane I'll stay hunched at my desk, it will roar in vain... For I'll have plunged deep inside the thrill Of conjuring spring with the force of my will, Coaxing the sun from my heart, and building here Out of my fiery thoughts, a tepid atmosphere.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Determined to place the letter On the unassassinated president's desk... So that a stamp could reproduce all this In detail ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I feel the carousel starting slowly And going faster and faster: desk, papers, books,... Photographs of friends, the window and the trees Merging in one neutral band that surrounds Me on all sides, everywhere I look.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Worry and brown desk Stain it by infusion. There aren't enough tags at the end,... And the grove is blind, blossoming, but we are too porous to hear it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »