Sometimes you're overwhelmed when a thing comes, and you do not realize the magnitude of the affair at that moment. When you get a...way from it, you wonder, did it really happen to you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude.... A whole is what has a beginni...ng and middle and end.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although a man may lose a sense of his own importance when he is a mere unit among a busy throng, all utterly regardless of him, i...t by no means follows that he can dispossess himself, with equal facility, of a very strong sense of the importance and magnitude of his cares.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man is but a little thing in the midst of the objects of nature, yet, by the moral quality radiating from his countenance, he ma...y abolish all considerations of magnitude, and in his manners equal the majesty of the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Imagination may be defined to be, the use which the Reason makes of the material world. Shakespeare possesses the power of sub...ordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses to creation like a bauble from hand to hand, and uses it to embody any caprice of thought that is upper-most in his mind. The remotest spaces of nature are visited, and the farthest sundered things are brought together, by a subtle spiritual connection. We are made aware that magnitude of material things is relative, and all objects shrink and expand to serve the passion of the poet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim--objects press around u...s, filling the mind with their magnitude and with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitud...e, and through which man can best learn how small he is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the ca...use of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... many of the so-called grievances of women are false. No man ever unfairly discriminated against me. If one tried to, I ... was... equal to the emergency, and such experience really added a great deal to the zest of life.... women, as a habit, over- estimated their ability, and ... they were too untrained even to appreciate the magnitude of their undertaking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »