The LORD forbid that I should raise my hand against the LORD's anointed; but now take the spear that is at his head, and the water... jar, and let us go.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Because wretches will dash a club... against a pin-prick, even though we live in the same village, I can't even look at my lover with both eyes at once.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,... This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house Against the envy of less happier lands; This blessèd plot, this earth, this realm, this England.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The five kings count the dead but do not soften The crusted wound nor stroke the brow;... A hand rules pity as a hand rules heaven; Hands have no tears to flow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Boasting is often carried by certain Americans to the extreme. Often however it is a reaction against slights, an effort to veil d...eficiencies, an effort made by a people aware of them, but on the other hand conscious of having accomplished in two or three generations what it took other nations centuries to perform. Generally, human nature revolts at taunts, at arrogant reproof, at undervaluation. Experience and time alone teach a becoming equanimity. European nations bear scoffing more patiently because they have thrown it occasionally for centuries at each other's head. Like old war horses accustomed to the roar of battles, they remain cool and self-possessed. There is on the American surface much to be rubbed off and rounded. Rude angles are to be soft ened, ease, flexibility instilled. Time must do the work. Refinement is a fruit slowly ripened by ages.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You make yourselves out to be shepherds of the flock and yet you allow your sheep to live in filth and poverty. And if they try an...d raise their voices against it, you calm them by telling them their suffering is the will of God. Sheep, indeed. Are we sheep to be herded and sheared by a handful of owners? I was taught man was made in the image of God, not a sheep.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Time in the hand is not control of time, Nor shattered fragments of an instrument... A proof against the wind; the wind will rise, We can only close the shutters.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against... the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »