... no book ... ever competed with the Bible. The story of Ruth was better than Ramona, and the poetry of Job was better than Long...fellow. I still have my first big Bible, carefully underlined through with red and black ink, and interleafed [sic] with painfully written manuscript pages.... Margery and I earned our five cents a week for church and a penny for Sunday school by learning three verses of the Bible a day and six on Sunday. We learned dozens and dozens of chapters. I supposed "Evangeline" and "Hiawatha" were better poetry, but I didn't like them so well.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Idealism sees the world in God. It beholds the whole circle of persons and things, of actions and events, of country and religion,... not as painfully accumulated, atom after atom, act after act, in an aged creeping Past, but as one vast picture, which God paints on the instant eternity, for the contemplation of the soul.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Composed in the Tower before his execution These moving verses, and being brought at that time... Painfully to the stake, submitted, declaring thus: "I implore my God to witness that I have made no crime."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Added man-made failure really hurts young children [under six]. No one has to contrive lessons for these youngsters so that they w...ill learn how to lose--they are losers too much of the time. No one has to put them in their place--they know all too well in their hearts the little place they are in. No one has to cut them down to size--their size is painfully small. At this stage in their development we are wise to stay away from competition, from games and races and contests with winners and losers. It matters too much to each child to come in first--they cannot stand the risk of competition.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is neve...r complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This way could not serve to reach the peak, so Martin began to climb straight up the face of the rocks. Occasionally some root or ...moss patch at which he clutched detached itself from the stone, and feverishly he would seek a support with his foot, or else it was his foothold that gave, and he would be left hanging by his hands and have to pull himself painfully up. The peak was almost within reach when he suddenly slipped and started to slither down, clutching at shrublets of rough flowers; he lost his grip, felt a burning pain as his knee scraped against the rock, attempted to embrace the steepness that was gliding up and past him--and abruptly salvation bumped against his soles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... fain would I turn back the clock and devote to French or some other language the hours I spent upon algebra, geometry, and tri...gonometry, of which not one principle remains with me. Stay! There is one theorem painfully drummed into my head which seems to have inhabited some corner of my brain since that early time: "The square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle is equal to the sum of the squares on the other two sides!" There it sticks, but what of it, ye gods, what of it?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability ever to reconstruct a dead world in its completene...ss however thorough or revealing their documentation.... We are doomed to be forever hailing someone who has just gone around the corner and out of earshot.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Good prostitutes are good at simulating the care and concern for their clients as individuals that are a part of noncommercial sex...ual relations, or even of showing genuine concern--that ends when the night is over. In this respect, they are much like psychotherapists. A hundred dollars may buy an hour of sympathy and understanding. But no matter how genuine the concern may be, it is money, not concern, that binds the relation, a fact that is sometimes made painfully plain to people in psychotherapy when they are told by their therapist, while deep in the midst of an especially troubling revelation, that the hour is up. If either the client or the prostitute (or therapist) oversteps the implicit contractual bounds of the relation, there is hell to pay.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »