I care not by what measure you end the war. If you allow one single germ, one single seed of slavery to remain in the soil of Amer...ica, whatever may be your object, depend upon it, as true as effect follows cause, that germ will spring up, that noxious weed will thrive, and again stifle the growth, wither the leaves, blast the flowers, and poison the fair fruits of freedom. Slavery and freedom cannot exist together.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd,... Such seems your beauty still. Three winters cold Have from the forests shook three summer's pride, Three beauteous springs to yellow autumns turn'd In process of the seasons have I seen, Three April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd, Since first I saw you fresh, which yet are green. Ah, yet doth beauty, like a dial hand, Steal from his figure, and no pace perceiv'd! So your sweet hue, which methinks still doth stand, Hath motion, and mine eye may be deceiv'd; For fear of which, hear this, thou age unbred: Ere you were born was beauty's summer dead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She... may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the sentimentalist ... exclaims: "Would you have a woman step down from her pedestal in order to enter practical life?" Yes! A... thousand times, yes! If we can really find, after a careful search, any women mounted upon pedestals, we should willingly ask them to step down in order that they may meet and help to uplift their sisters. Freedom and justice for all are infinitely more to be desired than pedestals for a few.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What will happen once the authentic mass man takes over, we do not know yet, although it may be a fair guess that he will have mor...e in common with the meticulous, calculated correctness of Himmler than with the hysterical fanaticism of Hitler, will more resemble the stubborn dullness of Molotov than the sensual vindictive cruelty of Stalin.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Widows are more skillful anglers for husbands than spinsters, and many marry several times. This is a social injustice to spinster...s. "One man one woman," is surely as fair a cry as "One man one vote." As there is scarcely one man for each woman, what right has one woman to two, three, or four men in succession? She may reply, "By the right of conquest." But, then, is she not reducing others to unhappy courses or to become old maids?... Society, for the interests of all, should discourage the remarriage of widows.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ah, yet, ere I descend to the grave, May I a small house and large garden have;... And a few friends, and many books, both true, Both wise, and both delightful too! And since love ne'er will from me flee, A mistress moderately fair, And good as guardian angels are, Only beloved and loving me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Foolish prater, What dost thou So early at my window do?... Cruel bird, thou'st ta'en away A dream out of my arms to-day; A dream that ne'er must equall'd be By all that waking eyes may see. Thou this damage to repair Nothing half so sweet and fair, Nothing half so good, canst bring, Tho' men say thou bring'st the Spring.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But the mark of American merit in painting, in sculpture, in poetry, in fiction, in eloquence, seems to be a certain grace without... grandeur, and itself not new but derivative; a vase of fair outline, but empty,--which whoso sees, may fill with what wit and character is in him, but which does not, like the charged cloud, overflow with terrible beauty, and emit lightnings on all beholders.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »