You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are just a boy, and he has been a warrior from his youth.... .LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
White men have always controlled their wives' wages. Colored men were not able to do so until they themselves became free. Then th...ey owned both their wives and their wages.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Since I know nothing of the merits of poetry, I am not able to pass any opinion upon this, but I can see that "reap" and "deep," "...prayers" and "bears," "ark" and "dark," "true" and "grew" do rhyme, and so I suppose it is a splendid effort, but if you had written it in plain prose, I could have understood it a great deal better and read it a great deal more easily.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Truth, but not the whole truth, must be the invariable principle of every man who hath either religion, honour, or prudence. Those... who violate it, may be cunning, but they are not able. Lies and perfidy are the refuge of fools and cowards.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The present war having so long cut off all communication with Great-Britain, we are not able to make a fair estimate of the state ...of science in that country. The spirit in which she wages war is the only sample before our eyes, and that does not seem the legitimate offspring either of science or of civilization.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the... attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to com...prehend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As men are not able to fight against death, misery, ignorance, they have taken it into their heads, in order to be happy, not to t...hink of them at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his hear...t to report what my dream was!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »