Everything tends to make us believe that there exists a certain point of the mind at which life and death, the real and the imagin...ed, past and future, the communicable and the incommunicable, high and low, cease to be perceived as contradictions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In literary circles, the men of trust and consideration, bookmakers, editors, university deans and professors, bishops, too, were ...by no means men of the largest literary talent, but usually of a low and ordinary intellectuality, with a sort of mercantile activity and working talent. Indifferent hacks and mediocrities tower, by pushing their forces to a lucrative point, or by working power, over multitudes of superior men, in Old as in New England.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Be near me when I fade away, To point the term of human strife,... And on the low dark verge of life The twilight of eternal day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and ... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I ca...n't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I hate him for he is a Christian; But more, for that in low simplicity... He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Write to the point: say immediately what you want to say most, even if it doesn't "come first." There are three reasons for doing ...this. First, you will then have said it, even if nothing else gets said. Second, your readers will then have read it, even if they read no more. Third, having said it, you are likely to have to say something more, because you will have to explain and justify what you chose to say.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »