You will find that reason, which always ought to direct mankind, seldom does; but that passions and weaknesses commonly usurp its ...seat, and rule in its stead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In my dealing with my child, my Latin and Greek, my accomplishments and my money stead me nothing; but as much soul as I have avai...ls. If I am wilful, he sets his will against mine, one for one, and leaves me, if I please, the degradation of beating him by my superiority of strength. But if I renounce my will, and act for the soul, setting that up as umpire between us two, out of his young eyes looks the same soul; he reveres and loves with me.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[I] am now struggling to enter the portals of the profession in which is locked up the passport which is to conduct me to all that... I am destined to receive in life. The entrance is steep and difficult, but my chiefest obstacles are within myself. If I knew and could master myself, all other difficulties would vanish. To overcome long-settled habits, one has almost to change "the stamp of nature"; but bad habits must be changed and good ones formed in their stead, or I shall never find the pearls I seek.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncr...eated conscience of my race.... Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The "family" has clearly emerged anew in the late 1970s as a central subject for discussion, debate, research and writing in both ...scholarly and popular arenas. Anxiety over whether or not the family as a basic social institution is dying has diminished. In its stead has emerged a fairly broad consensus around the position that the family is "here to stay," but that it certainly is changing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now that adolescence is accessible to the multitude and not restricted to gentlemen and lords, many adults are taking alarm at wha...t seems to be a barbaric horde of scruffy girls and boys out to dismantle the structure of society. It is hard to see any virtue in it at all. What the grown-ups see in its stead is considerable evidence of pride, covetousness, anger, gluttony, envy, sloth, and a great deal of lust.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I love no roast but a nut-brown toast, and a crab laid in the fire; A little bread shall do me stead! much bread I do not des...ire;LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One memorable addition to the old mythology is due to this era,--the Christian fable. With what pains, and tears, and blood these ...centuries have woven this and added it to the mythology of mankind! The new Prometheus. With what miraculous consent, and patience, and persistency has this mythus been stamped on the memory of the race! It would seem as if it were in the progress of our mythology to dethrone Jehovah, and crown Christ in his stead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a hero of one'...s self, (in private,) during life, but only alters the style of heroism from time to time as the drifting years belittle certain gods of his admiration and raise up others in their stead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »