There is a strange fact about the human mind, a fact that differentiates the mind sharply from the body. The body is limited in wa...ys that the mind is not. One sign of this is that the body does not continue indefinitely to grow in strength and develop in skill and grace. By the time most people are thirty years old, their bodies are as good as they will ever be; in fact, many persons' bodies have begun to deteriorate by that time. But there is no limit to the amount of growth and development that the mind can sustain. The mind does not stop growing at any particular age.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In general, Machiavellism and Utopianism can be taken to be too sharply opposed; the one realistic and the other idealistic and dr...eamlike. Yet More's Utopia is an extraordinarily realistic book. It is, indeed, closer in attitude to The Prince than is generally conceded. More, like Machiavelli, was a statesman-writer who clearly perceived political reality and dealt with the actual problems of his time. He was also, like Machiavelli, a humanist who used classical models--in his case, Plato--as a means of going beyond the mirror-of-princes literature. He, too, tried to penetrate the causes of the political evils of his time and to offer concrete and carefully thought-out solutions in place of the conventional sentiments of the time. More's solutions, however, were vastly different from those of Machiavelli. They reflect the fact that he belonged to a different tradition from that of power politics followed by Machiavelli. More's tradition was one which, with its roots deep in Eng lish literature, went back to Chaucer and Langland. It is characterized by two traits: an intimate concern with the suffering of the common people, and a feeling that the state exists for its members.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Come, there's no use in crying like that!" said Alice to herself rather sharply. "I advise you to leave off this minute!" She gen...erally gave herself good advice (though she very seldom followed it).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Speak when you're spoken to!" the Queen sharply interrupted her. "But if everybody obeyed that rule," said Alice, who was al...ways ready for a little argument, "and if you only spoke when you were spoken to, and the other person always waited for you to begin, you see nobody would ever say anything, so that--"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As we walked homeward across the fields, the sun dropped and lay like a great golden globe in the low west. While it hung there, t...he moon rose in the east, as big as a cart-wheel, pale silver and streaked with rose colour, thin as a bubble or a ghost-moon. For five, perhaps ten minutes, the two luminaries confronted each other across the level land, resting on opposite edges of the world. In that singular light every little tree and shock of wheat, every sunflower stalk and clump of snow-on-the-mountain, drew itself up high and pointed; the very clods and furrows in the fields seemed to stand up sharply. I felt the old pull of the earth, the solemn magic that comes out of those fields at nightfall. I wished I could be a little boy again, and that my way could end there.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What affects men sharply about a foreign nation is not so much finding or not finding familiar things; it is rather not finding th...em in the familiar place.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Wise men read very sharply all your private history in your look and gait and behavior. The whole economy of nature is bent on exp...ression. The tell-tale body is all tongues. Men are like Geneva watches with crystal faces which expose the whole movement.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In frames as large as rooms that face all ways And block the ends of streets with giant loaves,... Screen graves with custard, cover slums with praise Of motor-oil and cuts of salmon, shine Perpetually these sharply-pictured groves Of how life should be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To step over the low wall that divides Road from concrete walk above the shore... Brings sharply back something known long before The miniature gaiety of seasides.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »