I fear I agree with your friend in not liking all sermons. Some of them, one has to confess, are rubbish: but then I release my at...tention from the preacher, and go ahead in any line of thought he may have started: and his after-eloquence acts as a kind of accompaniment--like music while one is reading poetry, which often, to me, adds to the effect.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our first line of defense in raising children with values is modeling good behavior ourselves. This is critical. How will our kids... learn tolerance for others if our hearts are filled with hate? Learn compassion if we are indifferent? Perceive academics as important if soccer practice is a higher priority than homework?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The thundering line of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings:... But Day shall clasp him with strong hands, And Night shall fold him in soft wings.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It may be the more That no line of her writing have I,... Nor a thread of her hair, No mark of her late time as dame in her dwelling, whereby I may picture her there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You do not expect a distinguished lawyer to clean his own clothes, a doctor to groom his horse, a teacher to take care of the scho...olhouse furnace, a preacher to half-sole his shoes.... Yet a woman who enters upon any line of achievement is invariably hampered, for at least the early years, with the inbred desire to add to the labor of her profession all the so-called feminine duties, which, fulfilled to-day, are yet to be done to-morrow, which bring her neither comfort, gain nor reputation, and which by their perpetual demand diminish her powers for a higher quality of work.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into... my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the Union is once severed, the line of separation will grow wider and wider, and the controversies which are now debated and se...ttled in the halls of legislation will then be tried in fields of battle and determined by the sword.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Children who hear acquire language without any particular effort; the words that fall from others' lips they catch on the wing, as... it were, delightedly, while the little deaf child must trap them by a slow and often painful process. But whatever the process, the result is wonderful. Gradually from naming an object we advance step by step until we have traversed the vast distance between our first stammered syllable and the sweep of thought in a line of Shakespeare.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »