Younger sisters are almost different beings from elder ones, but thank God it is quite and unaffectedly without repining or envy t...hat I see my elder sister gad about and visit, etc.--when I rest at home.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh mother of a mighty race, Yet lovely in thy youthful grace!... The elder dames, thy haughty peers, Admire and hate thy blooming years.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Macrobius, that writ the avision In Afrique of the worthy Scipio,... Affirmeth dreams, and sayeth that they been Warning of thinges that men after seen.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So doth, so is Religion; and this blind- ness too much light breeds; but unmoved thou... Of force must one, and forc'd but one allow; And the right; ask thy father which is she, let him ask his; though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But, if we explore the literature of Heroism, we shall quickly come to Plutarch, who is its Doctor and historian. To him we owe th...e Brasidas, the Dion, the Epaminodas, the Scipio of old, and I must think we are more deeply indebted to him than to all the ancient writers. Each of his "Lives" is a refutation to the despondency and cowardice of our religious and political theorists. A wild courage, a Stoicism not of the schools, but of the blood, shines in every anecdote, and had given that book immense fame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Among animals, symbols are transmitted by tradition from generation to generation, and it is here, if one wishes, that one may dra...w the border line between the "animal" and man. In animals, individually acquired experience is sometimes transmitted by teaching and learning, from elder to younger individuals, though such true tradition is only seen in those forms whose high capacity for learning is combined with a higher development of their social life. True tradition has been demonstrated in jackdaws, greyleg geese, and rats. But knowledge thus transmitted is limited to very simple things, such as pathfinding, recognition of certain foods and of enemies of the species, and--in rats--knowledge of the danger of poisons. However, no means of communication, no learned rituals are ever handed by tradition in animals. In other words, animals have no culture.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Who we are has been sidetracked by labels for who we aren't. Phrase names have divided us. Stay-at-home mom, new dad, parent of sp...ecial needs child, working mother, job sharer, non-custodial parent, single parent, empty nesters, spouse caring for spouse, parent with teens, teenage parent, elder caregiver--these and so many other titles have put us in little niches and kept us thinking that we can't help each other because ... we are so different. But we are not a collection of separate sub-species. We caregivers are more like one another than not, no matter how we spend our days.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »