William Matthews
William Matthews
understanding progress steps
What lasting progress was ever made in social reformation, except when every step was insured by appeals to the understanding and the will?
capacity drawing popular regularly
It's a very, very popular exhibition, regularly drawing capacity crowds.
achievement best biggest fabulous focus gave loved people son
His biggest accomplishment was being a fabulous son to me. He gave the world's best hugs. Our focus is just that he was wonderful, that people loved him and that he will be sorely, sorely missed.
bargaining cutting expect management sacrifices table
How are they going to expect the UAW to come to the bargaining table and make any concessions without management making some sacrifices and cutting the dividend?
fire quality frost
As frost, raised to its utmost intensity, produces the sensation of fire, so any good quality, overwrought and pushed to excess, turns into its own contrary.
men ridiculous chance
Unless a man has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous.
law attention firsts
One wellcultivated talent, deepened and enlarged, is worth 100 shallow faculties. The first law of success in this day, when so many things are clamoring for attention, is concentration-to bend all the energies to one point, and to go directly to that point, looking neither to the right nor to the left.
argument power-of-music ability
The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.
character men differences
There is a wide difference between general acquaintance and companionship. You may salute a man and exchange compliments with him daily, yet know nothing of his character, his inmost tastes arid feelings.
ideas choices coercion
God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.
purpose may pages
The countenance may be rightly defined as the title page which heralds the contents of the human volume, but like other title pages, it sometimes puzzles, often misleads, and often says nothing to the purpose.
character giving anxiety
The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.
teacher men self
Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and cloisters--nor amid lake scenery, and on the sunny side of the mountains. Men who seldom mix with their fellow-creatures are almost sure to be one-sided--the victims of fixed ideas, that sometimes lead to insanity.
song reflection ideas
What are the precise characteristics of an epigram it is not easy to define. It differs from a joke, in the fact that the wit of the latter dies in the words, and cannot therefore be conveyed in another language; while an epigram is a wit of ideas, and hence, is translatable. Like aphorisms, songs and sonnets, it is occupied with some single point, small and manageable; but whilst a song conveys a sentiment, a sonnet a poetical, and an aphorism a moral reflection, an epigram expresses a contrast.