Yet whatever gains I had, these I have come to regard as loss because of Christ. More than that, I regard everything as loss becau...se of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things, and I regard them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but one that comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God based on faith.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Would the departed never nowhere nohow reappear? Ever he would wander, selfcompelled, to the extreme limit of his cometary orbit, ...beyond the fixed stars and variable suns and telescopic planets, astronomical waifs and strays, to the extreme boundary of space, passing from land to land, among peoples, amid events. Somewhere imperceptibly he would hear and somehow reluctantly, suncompelled, obey the summons of recall. Whence, disappearing from the constellation of the Northern Crown he would somehow reappear reborn above delta in the constellation of Cassiopeia and after incalculable eons of peregrination return an estranged avenger, a wreaker of justice on malefactors, a dark crusader, a sleeper awakened, with financial resources (by supposition) surpassing those of Rothschild or the silver king.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand, there h...ave started into life industrial and scientific forces which no epoch of former human history had ever suspected. On the other hand, there exist symptoms of decay, far surpassing the horrors recorded of the latter times of the Roman empire. In our days everything seems pregnant with its contrary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The bourgeoisie ... has been the first to show what man's activity can bring about. It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egy...ptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts and Gothic cathedrals.... The bourgeoisie ... draws all, even the most barbarian nations into civilization.... It has created enormous cities ... and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life.... The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fifty years ago it was taken for granted that marriage was the goal of every young woman's inmost thought, and the aim for her of ...her father and mother. While it is everlastingly true that home is woman's kingdom, and that she who is happily married reaches a divine reality of blessedness surpassing that of her mateless sister, still single women are not objects of pity. There are numberless avenues for their occupation, and a girl with ordinary gifts has but to choose that employment for which she is best fitted.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind, Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay... And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind: I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »