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When the last reader reads no more. - [Reading] When we plant a tree, we are doing what we can to make our planet a more wholesome and happier dwelling-place for those who come after us if not for ourselves. - [Trees] Winter is past; the heart of Nature warms Beneath the wrecks of unresisted storms; Doubtful at first, suspected more than seen, The southern slopes are fringed with tender green. - [Spring] Wisdom is the abstract of the past. - [Wisdom] Wit throws a single ray, separated from the rest,--red, yellow, blue, or any intermediate shade,--upon an object; never white light; that is the province of wisdom. We get beautiful effect from wit,--all the prismatic colors,--but never the object as it is in fair daylight. - [Wit] Writing or printing is like shooting with a rifle; you may hit your reader's mind, or miss it--but talking is like playing at a mark with the pipe of an engine; if it is within reach, and you have time enough, you can't help hitting it. - [Talking] Yet there are graves, whose rudely shapen sod Bears the fresh footprints where the sexton trod; Graves where the verdure has not dar'd to shoot Where the chance wildflower has not fix'd its root, Whose slumbering tenants, dead without a name, The eternal record shall at length proclaim Pure as the holiest in the long array Of hooded, mitred, or tiara'd clay! - [Churchyards] His home!--the Western giant smiles, And turns the spotty globe to find it;-- This little speck the British isles? 'Tis but a freckle,--never mind it. - A Good Time Going [England] Ay, here her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky. - A Metrical Essay [Flags] Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the God of storms, The lightning and the gale. - A Metrical Essay [Flags] The freeman casting, with unpurchased hand, The vote that shakes the turrets of the land. - A Metrical Essay (l. 83) [Politics : Voting] It cannot be repeated too often that the safety of great wealth with us lies in obedience to the new version of the Old World axiom--Richesse oblige. - A Moral Antipathy--Introduction [Wealth] Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. - A Mortal Antipathy [Love] Youth fades; love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. - A Mother's Secret [Hope : Mothers] And when you stick on conversation's burs, Don't strew your pathway with those dreadful urs. - A Rhymed Lesson--Urania [Conversation] I find that the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it--but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. - Autocrat of the Breakfast Table [Innovation] No, my friends, I go (always other things being equal) for the man that inherits family traditions and the cumulative humanities of at least four or five generations. - Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (ch. I) [Ancestry] People that make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. - Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (I) [Jesting] Of course everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all. - Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (l. 1) [Education] Man has his will,--but woman has her way. - Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (prologue) [Women] Boston State-house is the hub of the solar system. You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crow-bar. - Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (VI) [Boston] Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle that fits the all. - Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (VI) [Lying] The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. - Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (VI) [Cities] The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men. - Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (VI) [Students] Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: "Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries." - Autocrat of the Breakfast Table (VI) [Luxury : Paradoxes] Displaying page 6 of 9 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 [6] 7 8 9
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