In the gingham-mill, a broken thread or a shred spool spoils the web through a piece of a hundred yards, and is traced back to the... girl that wove it, and lessens her wages. The stockholder, on being shown this, rubs his hands with delight. Are you so cunning Mr. Profitloss, and do you expect to swindle your master and employer, in the web you weave? A day is more magnificent cloth than any muslin, the mechanism that makes it is infinitely cunninger, and you shall not conceal the sleazy, fraudulent, rotten hours you have slipped into the piece, nor fear that any honest thread, or straighter steel, or more inflexible shaft, will not testify in the web.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This we know: the earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth. This we know. All things are connected like the blood wh...ich unites one family. All things are connected. Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth. Man did not weave the web of life: he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But pale despair and cold tranquillity, Nature's vast frame, the web of human things,... Birth and the grave, that are not as they were.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Out flew the web and floated wide; The mirror cracked from side to side;... 'The curse is come upon me,' cried The Lady of Shalott.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
She left the web, she left the loom, She made three paces through the room,... She saw the water-lily bloom, She saw the helmet and the plume, She looked down to Camelot. Out flew the web and floated wide; The mirror cracked from side to side; "The curse is come upon me," cried The Lady of Shalott.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
However, our fates at least are social. Our courses do not diverge; but as the web of destiny is woven it is fulled, and we are ca...st more and more into the centre. Men naturally, though feebly, seek this alliance, and their actions faintly foretell it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I do not mean to imply that the good old days were perfect. But the institutions and structure--the web--of society needed reform,... not demolition. To have cut the institutional and community strands without replacing them with new ones proved to be a form of abuse to one generation and to the next. For so many Americans, the tragedy was not in dreaming that life could be better; the tragedy was that the dreaming ended.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »