When I consider the Question, Whether there are such Persons in the World as those we call Witches? my Mind is divided between the... two opposite Opinions; or rather (to speak my Thoughts freely) I believe in general that there is, and has been such a thing as Witchcraft; but at the same time can give no Credit to any Particular Instance of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And songs climb out of the flames of the near campfires, Pale, pastel things exquisite in their frailness... With a note or two to indicate it isn't lost, On them at least. The songs decorate our notion of the world And mark its limits, like a frieze of soap-bubbles.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The record of one's life must needs prove more interesting to him who writes it than to him who reads what has been written. ..."I have no name: "I am but two days old." What shall I call thee? "I happy am, "Joy is my name." Sweet joy befall thee!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A very simple and useful device is to have a memorandum-book, so small that it can be easily carried in the pocket, to be used ins...tead of your mind to keep note of any errand or any appointment that you may have. The Standard Diary, less than four inches long and less than two and a half inches wide, is one of the best for this purpose. ...In fact, such diaries as these, in their wide range of information, would seem to be all that one needs in practical life, the only other book that at all approaches them in this respect being unquestionably Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What we call spring here is one rose and two buds that just grew in the cloister garden. That is enough to move the men of my coun...try. But their heart resembles that miserly rose. A more powerful breath would wilt them, they have the spring that they deserve.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Call us what you will, we are made such by love; Call her one, me another fly,... We're tapers too, and at our own cost die, And we in us find the eagle and the dove The phoenix riddle hath more wit By us; we two being one are it. So to one neutral thing both sexes fit, We die and rise the same, and prove Mysterious by this love.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The words "house" and "home" are a shorthand for two ways of thinking about the family, but it needs to be pointed out that they d...id not go through history as a pair. "House" is almost a dead word, used today only to refer to things grand and historical. People in the past did not use "home" in the emotionally loaded way we do. The Romance languages do not even have an equivalent word for "home" and have to call other words into service for expressing the modern concept.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is only when we speak what is right that we stand a chance at night of being blown to bits in our homes. Can we call this a fre...e country, when I am afraid to go to sleep in my own home in Mississippi?... I might not live two hours after I get back home, but I want to be a part of setting the Negro free in Mississippi.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let us note here that the same formal analysis ... applies to scientific prediction as well as to explanation. The difference betw...een the two is of a pragmatic character. If E is given, i.e., if we know that the phenomenon described by E has occurred, and a suitable set of statements C1, C2, ... Ck, L1, L2, ... Lr is provided afterwards, we speak of an explanation of the phenomenon in question. If the latter statements are given and E is derived prior to the occurrence of the phenomenon it describes, we speak of a prediction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »