Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at th...e last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor, it... is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised in power. It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Your business is not to catch men with show, With homage to the perishable clay,... But lift them over it, ignore it all, Make them forget there's such a thing as flesh. Your business is to paint the souls of men--LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Ordinary people think that talent must be always on its own level and that it arises every morning like the sun, rested and refres...hed, ready to draw from the same storehouse--always open, always full, always abundant--new treasures that it will heap up on those of the day before; such people are unaware that, as in the case of all mortal things, talent has its increase and decrease, and that independently of the career it takes, like everything that breathes ... it undergoes all the accidents of health, of sickness, and of the dispositions of the soul--its gaiety or its sadness.... As with our perishable flesh ... talent is obliged constantly to keep guard over itself, to combat, and to keep perpetually on the alert amid the obstacles that witness the exercise of its singular power.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Amidst the downward tendency and proneness of things, when every voice is raised for a new road or another statute or a subscripti...on of stock; for an improvement in dress, or in dentistry; for a new house or a larger business; for a political party, or the division of an estate;Mwill you not tolerate one or two solitary voices in the land, speaking for thoughts and principles not marketable or perishable?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The private buildings [of Virginia] are very rarely constructed of stone or brick; much the greatest proportion being of scantling... and boards, plastered with lime. It is impossible to devise things more ugly, uncomfortable, and happily more perishable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Evil is ... a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constitu...ted the monstrous, the execrable being who was also to fashion such a hideous world. It will hence exist after the creatures which people this world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Unfortunately, moral beauty in art--like physical beauty in a person--is extremely perishable. It is nowhere so durable as artisti...c or intellectual beauty. Moral beauty has a tendency to decay very rapidly into sententiousness or untimeliness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No doubt Carlyle has a propensity to exaggerate the heroic in history, that is, he creates you an ideal hero rather than another t...hing.... Yet what were history if he did not exaggerate it? How comes it that history never has to wait for facts, but for a man to write it? The ages may go on forgetting the facts never so long, he can remember two for every one forgotten. The musty records of history, like the catacombs, contain the perishable remains, but only in the breast of genius are embalmed the souls of heroes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »