The woman who is rearing a family of children; the woman who labors in the schoolroom; the woman who, in her retired chamber, earn...s, with her needle, the mite, which contributes to the intellectual and moral elevation of her Country; even the humble domestic, whose example and influence may be moulding and forming young minds, while her faithful services sustain a prosperous domestic state;Meach and all may be animated by the consciousness, that they are agents in accomplishing the greatest work that ever was committed to human responsibility. It is the building of a glorious temple, whose base shall be coextensive with the bounds of the earth, whose summit shall pierce the skies, whose splendor shall beam on all lands; and those who hew the lowliest stone, as much as those who carve the highest capital, will be equally honored, when its top-stone shall be laid, with new rejoicings of the morning stars, and shoutings of the sons of God.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating ...their philosophical drawbacks from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Take a timber That you shall find lies in the cellar, charred... Among the raspberries, and hew and shape it For a doorsill or other corner piece In a new cottage on the ancient spot. The life is not yet all gone out of it. And come and make your summer dwelling here....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O if we but knew what we do When we delve or hew--... Hack and rack the growing green! Since country is so tender To touch, her being so slender, That, like this sleek and seeing ball But a prick will make no eye at all, Where we, even where we mean To mend her we end her, When we hew or delve: After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But physic yet could never reach The maladies thou me dost teach:... Whom first the cramp of hope does tear; And then the palsy shakes of fear; The pestilence of love does heat; Or hatred's hidden ulcer eat; Joy's cheerful madness does perplex, Or sorrow's other madness vex; Which knowledge forces me to know, And memory will not forgo. What but a soul could have the wit To build me up for sin so fit? So architects do square and hew Green trees that in the forest grew.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let's kill him boldly, but not wrathfully; Let's carve him as a dish fit for the gods,... Not hew him as a carcase fit for hounds.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our indiscretion sometime serves us well When our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us... There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »