Will Harrison
Will Harrison
reading writing odds
What is literature, and why do I try to write about it? I don’t know. Likewise, I don’t know why I go on living, most of the time. But this not knowing is precisely what I want to preserve. As readers, the closest way we can engage with a literary work is to protect its indeterminacy; to return ourselves and it to a place that precludes complete recognition. Really, when I’m reading, all I want is to stand amazed in front of an unknown object at odds with the world.
world stories realizing
Stories pass the experienced world back and forth between them as a metaphor, until it is worn out. Only then do we realize that meaning is an act. We must repossess it, instant to instant in our lives.
topics life-is englishmen
To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity.
argument conspirators eternal
The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.
government presidential examination
A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged.
inspirational-life peculiar lessons
All the lessons of history and experience must be lost upon us if we are content to trust alone to the peculiar advantages we happen to possess.
military tyrants passing-away
The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off.
heart voice revelry
Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.
believe men divine-right
We admit of no government by divine right, believing that so far as power is concerned the Beneficent Creator has made no distinction amongst men; that all are upon an equality, and that the only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
president politician legitimate-power
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
religious responsibility lasting-happiness
Sound morals, religious liberty, and a just sense of religious responsibility are essentially connected with all true and lasting happiness.
exercise rights government
The people are the best guardians of their own rights and it is the duty of their executive to abstain from interfering in or thwarting the sacred exercise of the lawmaking functions of their government.
believe government purpose
I believe that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
change latin latin-and-greek
Times change, and we change with them.