It is cruel for you to leave your daughter, so full of hope and resolve, to suffer the humiliations of disfranchisement she alread...y feels so keenly, and which she will find more and more galling as she grows into the stronger and grander woman she is sure to be. If it were your son who for any cause was denied his right to have his opinion counted, you would compass sea and land to lift the ban from him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every European visitor to the United States is struck by the comparative rarity of what he would call a face, by the frequency of ...men and women who look like elderly babies. If he stays in the States for any length of time, he will learn that this cannot be put down to a lack of sensibility--the American feels the joys and sufferings of human life as keenly as anybody else. The only plausible explanation I can find lies in his different attitude to the past. To have a face, in the European sense of the word, it would seem that one must not only enjoy and suffer but also desire to preserve the memory of even the most humiliating and unpleasant experiences of the past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great object in life is Sensation--to feel that we exist, even though in pain; it is this "craving void" which drives us to ga...ming, to battle, to travel, to intemperate but keenly felt pursuits of every description whose principal attraction is the agitation inseparable from their accomplishment.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is the custom of the immortal gods to grant temporary prosperity and a fairly long period of impunity to those whom they plan t...o punish for their crimes, so that they may feel it all the more keenly as a result of the change in their fortunes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget that I am writing fo...r myself alone. Thus I shall always tell the truth, I hope, and thus I shall improve myself. These pages will reproach me for my changes of mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Anybody who knows the difference between the kind of conversation you have walking in the woods and the kind of conversation you h...ave between the segments of a show on Nickelodeon can tell you that quality time exists. Quality time is when you and your child are together and keenly aware of each other. You are enjoying the same thing at the same time, even if it is just being in a room or going for a drive in the car. You are somehow in tune, even while daring to be silent together.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I am an abolitionist for the sake of my own race--Contact with the African degenerates our white race--I find the association w...ith them injurious to my child--keenly as I watch to prevent it & his faithful nurse to help me ... She is a good woman & so are many of them--Still the race is a degraded one ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »