but Overall is beyond me: is the sum of these events I cannot draw, the ledger I cannot keep, the accounting... beyond the account:LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We have to recognise, that the gin-palace, like many other evils, although a poisonous, is still a natural outgrowth of our social... conditions. The tap-room in many cases is the poor man's only parlour. Many a man takes to beer, not from the love of beer, but from a natural craving for the light, warmth, company, and comfort which is thrown in along with the beer, and which he cannot get excepting by buying beer. Reformers will never get rid of the drink shop until they can outbid it in the subsidiary attractions which it offers to its customers.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Any relation to the land, the habit of tilling it, or mining it, or even hunting on it, generates the feeling of patriotism. He wh...o keeps shop on it, or he who merely uses it as a support to his desk and ledger, or to his manufactory, values it less.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Life is constantly providing us with new funds, new resources, even when we are reduced to immobility. In life's ledger there is n...o such thing as frozen assets.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In considering the ledger equal, understand the greatest gift you have given your parents is the opportunity to raise you. The thi...ngs a child gets from parents can't compare to the things a parent gets from raising a child. Only by experiencing this can you understand the degree to which children give meaning to parents' lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poetry is creative expression; poetry is constructive expression. That, in a sentence, is the real distinction.... In poetry the w...ords are born or re-born in the act of thinking. The words are, in Bergsonian phraseology, a becoming; they develop in the mind pari passu with the development of the thought. There is no time interval between the words and the thought. The thought is the word and the word is the thought, and both the thought and the word are Poetry. "Constructive" implies ready-made materials; words stacked round the builder, ready for use. Prose is a structure of ready-made words. Its "creative" function is confined to plan and elevation--functions these, too, of Poetry, but in Poetry subsidiary to the creative function.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dis...honesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In England the judges should have independence to protect the people against the crown. Here the judges should not be independent ...of the people, but be appointed for not more than seven years. The people would always re-elect the good judges.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their firs...t purpose?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »