"When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less...." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master--that's all."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dum...pty, "which is to be master--that's all."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It would be idle to say that we were not, from time to time, aware that a volcano slumbered fitfully beneath us. There were dark s...ides to the Slavery Question, for master, as for slave.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The great leading distinction between writing and speaking is, that more time is allowed for the one than the other, and hence dif...ferent faculties are required for, and different objects attained by each. He is properly the best speaker who can collect together the greatest number of apposite ideas at a moment's warning; he is properly the best writer who can give utterance to the greatest quantity of valuable knowledge in the course of his whole life. The chief requisite for the one, then, appears to be quickness and facility of perception--for the other, patience of soul and a power increasing with the difficulties it has to master. He cannot be denied to be an expert speaker, a lively companion, who is never at a loss for something to say on every occasion or subject that offers. He, by the same rule, will make a respectable writer who, by dint of study, can find out anything good to say upon any one point that has not yet been touched upon before, or who by asking for time, can give the most complete and comprehensive view of any question. The one must be done off-hand, at a single blow; the other can only be done by a repetition of blows, by having time to think and do better.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The requirements of the theatre are very great--a strong constitution, energy and unflagging purpose, charm of feature, these alon...e do not necessarily mean anything, and they must not be relied upon as assurances of an easy conquest of the public heart. It is not only a question of fitness for the work, but of long years of most diligent effort to master the technique of the theatre, and to develop whatever of the art instinct we may possess upon the simplest, broadest, and most human lines.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Two such as you with such a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away... From one another once you are agreed That life is only life forevermore Together wing to wing and oar to oar.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O Master, let me walk with thee In lowly paths of service free;... Tell me thy secret; help me bear The strain of toil, the fret of care;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Out of the woods my Master came, Content with death and shame.... When Death and Shame would woo Him last, From under the trees they drew Him last: 'Twas on a tree they slew Him--last When out of the woods He came.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »