Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries: and though, perhaps, sometimes the force of a clear argument may ma...ke some impression, yet they nevertheless stand firm, and keep out the enemy, truth, that would captivate or disturb them. Tell a man passionately in love, that he is jilted; bring a score of witnesses of the falsehood of his mistress, it is ten to one but three kind words of hers shall invalidate all their testimonies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have pr...ophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing. Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character of... the speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nelse McLeod: Faith can move mountains Milt, but it can't beat a faster draw. There's only three men I know with his kind of speed...--one's dead, the other's me, and the third is Cole Thornton. Cole Thornton: There's a fourth. McLeod: Which one are you? Thornton: I'm Thornton.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Say, is there Beauty yet to find? And Certainty? And Quiet kind?... Deep meadows yet, for to forget The lies, and truths, and pain? . . . oh! Stands the Church clock at ten to three? And is there honey still for tea?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conque...red neighbours. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The kind of Unitarian Who having by elimination got... From many gods to Three, and Three to One, Thinks why not taper off to none at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the factory people outside the colleges live under the discipline of narrow means, the people inside live under almost every ot...her kind of discipline except that of narrow means--from the fruity austerities of learning, through the iron rations of English gentlemanhood, down to the modest disadvantages of occupying cold stone buildings without central heating and having to cross two or three quadrangles to take a bath.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
That three times five is equal to the half of thirty, expresses a relation between these numbers. Propositions of this kind are di...scoverable by the mere operation of thought, without dependence on what is any where existent in the universe. Though there never were a circle or triangle in nature, the truths, demonstrated by Euclid, would for ever retain their certainty and evidence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »