Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I. Are they ministers of Christ? I... am talking like a madman -I am a better one: with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless floggings, and often near death. Five times I have received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one. Three times I was beaten with rods. Once I received a stoning. Three times I was shipwrecked; for a night and a day I was adrift at sea; on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from bandits, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brothers and sisters; in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night, hungry and thirsty, often without food, cold and naked. And, besides other things, I am under daily pressure because of my anxiety for all the churches.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not... for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
out of hardship bred, Spirits of power and beauty and delight... Have ever on such frugal pastures fed And loved to course with tempests through the night.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Well, farmers never have made money. I don't believe we can do much about it. But of course we will have to seem to be doing somet...hing; do the best we can and without much hope. The life of the farmer has its compensations but it has always been one of hardship.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When we of the so-called better classes are scared as men were never scared in history at material ugliness and hardship; when we ...put off marriage until our house can be artistic, and quake at the thought of having a child without a bank-account and doomed to manual labor, it is time for thinking men to protest against so unmanly and irreligious a state of opinion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When a generation watches the young ones, their future, their responsibility, grow up, and when what they are to inherit is pitifu...l and so reduced, then the shame of it goes too deep for reasoning. No, it was not our fault that our children had to learn such hardship, had to forego so much that we, the older ones, had inherited. Our fault it was not; but we felt that it was. We were learning, we old ones, that in times when a species, a race, is under threat, drives and necessities built into the very substance of our flesh speak out in ways that we need never have known about if extremities had not come to squeeze these truths out of us. An older, a passing, generation needs to hand on goodness, something fine and high--even if it is only in potential--to their children. And if there isn't this bequest to put into their hands, then there is a bitterness and a pain that makes it hard to look into young eyes, young faces.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Commercialism is the blemish on the fair face of American life. Fighting against the terrible conditions of the explorer and pione...er, our forefathers had little time to think of beauty. Hearts and heads became as hardened to the more gracious things of life as did their bodies against physical hardship. Little by little, as nature yielded before the dynamite of their wills, life began to express itself in the same hard terms, and the great commerce of a New World bent everything to its indomitable will.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostra...cism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »