...though one can be callous in Ireland one cannot be wholly opaque or material. An unearthly disturbance works in the spirit; rea...son can never reconcile one to life; nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It has been an unchallengeable American doctrine that cranberry sauce, a pink goo with overtones of sugared tomatoes, is a delecta...ble necessity of the Thanksgiving board and that turkey is uneatable without it.... There are some things in every country that you must be born to endure; and another hundred years of general satisfaction with Americans and America could not reconcile this expatriate to cranberry sauce, peanut butter, and drum majorettes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people... think about us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The poet ... like the lover ... is a person unable to reconcile what he knows with what he feels. His peculiarity is that he is un...der a certain compulsion to do so.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If there were two princes in Christendom who had good will and courage, it would be very easy to reconcile the religious difficult...ies; there is only one Jesus Christ and one faith, and all the rest is a dispute over trifles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To me, however, the question of the times resolved itself into a practical question of the conduct of life. How shall I live? We a...re incompetent to solve the times. Our geometry cannot span the huge orbits of the prevailing ideas, behold their return, and reconcile their opposition. We can only obey our own polarity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
With what joy I begin to read a poem, which I confide in as an inspiration! And now my chains are to be broken; I shall mount abov...e these clouds and opaque airs in which I live,--opaque, though they seem transparent,--and from the heaven of truth I shall see and comprehend my relations. That will reconcile me to life, and renovate nature, to see trifles animated by tendency, and to know what I am doing. Life will no more be a noise; now I shall see men and women, and know the signs by which they may be discerned from fools and satans. This day shall be better than my birth-days: then I became an animal: now I am invited into the science of the real.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The worst feature of this double consciousness is, that the two lives, of the understanding and of the soul, which we lead, really... show very little relation to each other; never meet and measure each other: one prevails now, all buzz and din; and the other prevails then, all infinitude and paradise; and, with the progress of life, the two discover no greater disposition to reconcile themselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tears may be considered as the natural and involuntary resource of the mind overcome by some sudden and violent emotion, before it... has had time to reconcile its feelings to the change in circumstances: while laughter may be defined to be the same sort of convulsive and involuntary movement, occasioned by mere sur prise or contrast (in the absence of any more serious emotion), before it has time to reconcile its belief to contradictory appearances.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »