So close is the bond between man and woman that you can not raise one without lifting the other. The world can not move ahead with...out woman's sharing in the movement, and to help give a right impetus to that movement is woman's highest privilege.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They raise their minds by brooding over and embellishing their sufferings, from one degree of fervid exaltation and dreary greatne...ss to another, till at length they run amuck entirely, and whoever meets them would do well to run them thro' the body.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way ...is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every man is born an Aristotelian or a Platonist. I do not think it possible that anyone born an Aristotelian can become a Platoni...st; and I am sure that no born Platonist can ever change into an Aristotelian. They are two classes of man, beside which it is next to impossible to conceive a third. The one considers reason a quality or attribute; the other considers it a power.... Aristotle was, and still is, the sovereign lord of the understanding--the faculty judging by the senses. He was a conceptualist, and never could raise himself into that higher state, which was natural to Plato, and has been so to others, in which the understanding is distinctly contemplated, and, as it were, looked down upon from the throne of actual ideas, or living, inborn, essential truths.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Know this: We serve the Holy One, To whom our restless souls belong.... We have our breath through God alone, To whom we raise our grateful song.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Prometheus is action. Hamlet is hesitation. In Prometheus the obstacle is exterior; in Hamlet it is interior. In Prometheus the wi...ll is securely nailed down by nails of brass and cannot get loose; besides, it has by its side two watchers--Force and Power. In Hamlet the will is more tied down yet; it is bound by previous meditation--the endless chain of the undecided. Try to get out of yourself if you can! What a Gordian knot is our reverie. Slavery from within, that is slavery indeed. Scale this enclosure, "to dream!" escape, if you can, from this prison, "to love!" The only dungeon is that which walls conscience in. Prometheus, in order to be free, has but a bronze collar to break and a god to conquer; Hamlet must break and conquer himself. Prometheus can raise himself upright, if he only lifts a mountain; to raise himself up, Hamlet must lift his own thoughts. If Prometheus plucks the vulture from his breast, all is said; Hamlet must tear Hamlet from his breast. Prometheus and Hamlet are two naked livers; from one runs blood, from the other doubt.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One current reaction to change in families, for example, is the proposal for more "education for parenthood," on the theory that t...his training will not only teach specific skills such as how to change diapers or how to play responsively with toddlers, but will raise parents' self-confidence at the same time. The proposed cure, in short, is to reform and educate the people with the problem.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Teach a child to play solitaire, and she'll be able to entertain herself when there's no one around. Teach her tennis, and she'll ...know what to do when she's on a court. But raise her to feel comfortable in nature, and the whole planet is her home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Though the practice of chivalry fell even more sadly short of its theoretic standard than practice generally falls below theory, i...t remains one of the most precious monuments of the moral history of our race, as a remarkable instance of a concerted and organized attempt by a most disorganized and distracted society, to raise up and carry into practice a moral ideal greatly in advance of its social condition and institutions; so much so as to have been completely frustrated in the main object, yet never entirely inefficacious, and which has left a most sensible, and for the most part a highly valuable impress on the ideas and feelings of all subsequent times.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Go, all of you poor people, in the name of God the Creator, and let him forever be your guide. And henceforth, do not be beguiled ...by these idle and useless pilgrimages. See to your families, and work, each one of you, in your vocation, raise your children, and live as the good Apostle Paul teaches you.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »