There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the... other fellow to make the first move--and he, in turn, waits for you. The minute a person whose word means a great deal dares to take the open- hearted and courageous way, many others follow. Not everyone can be turned aside from meanness and hatred, but the great majority of Americans is heading in that direction. I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Undoubtedly ... there is a meanness in all the arts which ladies sometimes condescend to employ for captivation. What bears affini...ty to cunning is despicable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A land of meanness, sophistry and mist. Each breeze from foggy mount and marshy plain... Dilutes with drivel every drizzly brain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The too much contemplation of these limits induces meanness. They who talk much of destiny, their birth-star, &c., are in a lower ...dangerous plane, and invite the evils they fear.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Foolish, whenever you take the meanness and formality of that thing you do, instead of converting it into the obedient spiracle of... your character and aims.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A higher class, in the estimation and love of this city- building, market-going race of mankind, are the poets, who, from the inte...llectual kingdom, feed the thought and imagination with ideas and pictures which raise men out of the world of corn and money, and console them for the short-comings of the day, and the meanness of labor and traffic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is contended that those who have been bred at Eton, Harrow, Rugby, and Westminster, that the public sentiment within each of th...ose schools is high-toned and manly; that, in their playgrounds, courage is universally admired, meanness despised, manly feelings and generous conduct are encouraged: that an unwritten code of honor deals to the spoiled child of rank, and to the child of upstart wealth an even-handed justice, purges their nonsense out of both, and does all that can be done to make them gentlemen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He had fathered every folly, every sin. No goat knew gluttony like his, no cat had felt his pride, no crow his avarice. He had sai...d the psalm against envy, the psalm against anger, the psalm against sloth and the loss of hope, but they were no defense.... Without moderation or charity, without relish or enthusiasm, he'd led a wanton, heedless, selfish life. In meanness, in darkness and squalor of spirit, he had passed his time. Faithless he'd professed a faith. Faithlessly, he'd preached.... Even now he made himself a monster, overblew his vices so his charge would lack conviction. Was that not the mark of a monster?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »