What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial... vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Much of the emotional turmoil in the second year revolves around the difficult task of integrating the child's will into the famil...y constellation. The child learns that her personal wishes (so cherished, seemingly so right) need to fit reasonably well with what others want. The parents learn that they, too, have to say "no" with firmness and conviction but hopefully without harshness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance.... 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When Sheba was his lass, When she the iron wrought, or... When from the smithy fire It shuddered in the water: Harshness of their desire That made them stretch and yawn....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »