The British are a self-distrustful, diffident people, agreeing with alacrity that they are neither successful nor clever, and only... modestly claiming that they have a keener sense of humour, more robust common sense, and greater staying power as a nation than all the rest of the world put together.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We find that Good and Evil happen alike to all Men on this Side of the Grave; and as the principle Design of Tragedy is to raise C...ommiseration and Terror in the Minds of the Audience, we shall defeat this great End, if we always make Virtue and Innocence happy and successful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... to be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assi...milate but one idea at a time.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly succ...essful attempts to liberate himself from necessity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Two myths must be shattered: that of the evil stepparent . . . and the myth of instant love, which places unrealistic demands on a...ll members of the blended family. . . . Between the two opposing myths lies reality. The recognition of reality is, I believe, the most important step toward the building of a successful second family.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As the creative adult needs to toy with ideas, the child, to form his ideas, needs toys--and plenty of leisure and scope to play w...ith them as he likes, and not just the way adults think proper. This is why he must be given this freedom for his play to be successful and truly serve him well.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the pages of this book contain some successful verse, the reader must excuse me the discourtesy of having usurped it first. Our... nothingness differs little; it is a trivial and chance circumstance that you should be the reader of these exercises and I their author.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A broad consensus exists that Lincoln was more eloquent than Davis in expressing war aims, more successful in communicating with t...he people, more skillful as a political leader in keeping factions working together for the war effort, better able to endure criticism and work with his critics to achieve a common goal. Lincoln was flexible, pragmatic, with a sense of humor to smooth relationships and help him survive the stress of his job; Davis was austere, rigid, humorless, with the type of personality that readily made enemies. Lincoln had a strong physical constitution; Davis suffered ill health and was frequently prostrated with illness. Lincoln picked good administrative subordinates (with some exceptions) and knew how to delegate authority to them; Davis went through five secretaries of war in four years; he spent a great deal of time and energy on petty administrative details that he should have left to subordinates. A disputatious man, Davis sometimes seemed to prefer winning an argument to winning the war; Lincoln was happy to lose an argument if it would help him win the war.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What sunk me very low was the sensation that I was precisely as when in wretched low spirits thirty years ago, without any additio...n to my character from my having had the friendship of Dr. Johnson and many eminent men, made the tour of Europe, and Corsica in particular, and written two very successful books. I was as a board on which fine figures had been painted, but which some corrosive application had reduced to its original nakedness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And had it been the dove from Noah's ark, Returning there from her successful search,... Which in their way that moment chanced to fall, They would have eat her, olive-branch and all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »