“Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive in their joys and sorrows, and that about the most trifling objects; they bear no pain, but like to inflict it on others; already they are men.” MenChildrenPainJoyLaughingObjectsBearsSorrowPassionateLiarsIdleEnviousEgotisticalFickleTriflingNo PainInquisitiveJoys And SorrowsOverbearingSupercilious Author:Jean de la Bruyere
“America could carry on a two years' war by the confiscation of the property of disaffected persons, and be made happy by their expulsion. Say not that this is revenge, call it rather the soft resentment of a suffering people, who, having no object in view but the good of all, have staked their own all upon a seemingly doubtful event. Yet it is folly to argue against determined hardness; eloquence may strike the ear, and the language of sorrow draw forth the tear of compassion, but nothing can reach the heart that is steeled with prejudice.” PeopleYearsHeartMayPersonsMadeTwoWarAmericaSufferingLanguageViewsCompassionEventsObjectsTearsSorrowDrawsEarsPrejudicePropertyDeterminedRevengeStrikesArguingFollyTwo YearsResentmentEloquenceDoubtfulHardnessExpulsion Book:THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Which Inspired the American People to Fight for Their Independence: Including Source: THE AMERICAN CRISIS – Revolutionary Work Which Inspired the American People to Fight for Their Independence: Including
“It is the veiled angel of sorrow who plucks away one thing and another that bound us here in ease and security, and, in the vanishing of these dear objects, indicates the true home of our affections and our peace.” HomeOne ThingSecurityObjectsSorrowAngelBoundsDearAffectionEasePluckVanishingTrue Home Author:Edwin Hubbel Chapin
“Describe your sorrows and desires, passing thoughts and the belief in some sort of beauty-describe all these with loving, quiet, humble sincerity, and use, to express yourself, the things in your environment, the images from your dreams, and the objects of your memory.” UseDreamDesireBeliefMemoriesEnvironmentObjectsSorrowQuietHumblePassingPassingsYour DreamsSincerityOur EnvironmentOur MemoriesExpress Yourself Author:Rainer Maria Rilke