The law before us, my lords, seems to be the effect of that practice of which it is intended likewise to be the cause, and to be d...ictated by the liquor of which it so effectually promotes the use; for surely it never before was conceived by any man entrusted with the administration of public affairs, to raise taxes by the destruction of the people.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, mighty and awesome, who is not partial and takes no bribe, ...who executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and who loves the strangers, providing them food and clothing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They that goe downe to 'th sea in ships: Their busines there to doo... In waters great. The Lords work see, I'th deep his wonders too.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A good performance, like a human life, is a temporal affair--a process in time. It is good as a whole through being good in its pa...rts, and through their good order to one another. It cannot be called good as a whole until it is finished. During the process all we can say of it, if we speak precisely, is that it is becoming good. The same is true of a whole human life. Just as the whole performance never exists at any one time, but is a process of becoming, so a human life is also a performance in time and a process of becoming. And just as the goodness that attaches to the performance as a whole does not attach to any of its parts, so the goodness of a human life as a whole belongs to it alone, and not to any of its parts or phases.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that "the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look a...t it."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science is the language of the temporal world; love is that of the spiritual world. Man, indeed, describes more than he explains; ...while the angelic spirit sees and understands. Science saddens man; love enraptures the angel; science is still seeking, love has found. Man judges of nature in relation to itself; the angelic spirit judges of it in relation to heaven. In short to the spirits everything speaks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not h...urt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons & Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And yet, and yet ... Denying temporal succession, denying the self, denying the astronomical universe, are obvious acts of despera...tion and secret consolation. Our fate (unlike the hell of Swedenborg or the hell of Tibetan mythology) is not frightful because it is unreal; it is frightful because it is irreversible and ironclad. Time is the thing I am made of. Time is a river that sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that tears me apart, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire. The world, unfortunately, is real; I, unfortunately, am Borges.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »