[Rutherford B. Hayes] was a patriotic citizen, a lover of the flag and of our free institutions, an industrious and conscientious ...civil officer, a soldier of dauntless courage, a loyal comrade and friend, a sympathetic and helpful neighbor, and the honored head of a happy Christian home. He has steadily grown in the public esteem, and the impartial historian will not fail to recognize the conscientiousness, the manliness, and the courage that so strongly characterized his whole public career.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Hearing the low sound of a cloud scattering rain... at midnight and thinking for an eternity on his absent young wife, a traveller heaved a sigh and with a flood of tears howled the whole night long. Now, villagers won't let him stay in their place anymore.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What was he doing, the great god Pan, Down in the reeds by the river?... Spreading ruin and scattering ban, Splashing and paddling with hoofs of a goat, And breaking the golden lilies afloat With the dragon-fly on the river.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
smashing the windows of sleep and dream smashing the windows of history... a whiteness scattering in hailstones each a mirror for man's eyes.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Disease can never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's wailful screaming or faith's cymballic prayer. It can only be co...nquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flower...s, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Or of the garden where we first mislaid Simplicity of wish and will, forgetting... Out of what cognate splendor all things came To take their scattering names;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A strange thing has happened--while all the other arts were born naked, this, the youngest, has been born fully- clothed. It can s...ay everything before it has anything to say. It is as if the savage tribe, instead of finding two bars of iron to play with, had found scattering the seashore fiddles, flutes, saxophones, trumpets, grand pianos by Erhard and Bechstein, and had begun with incredible energy, but without knowing a note of music, to hammer and thump upon them all at the same time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »