INDEPENDENCE
I never thrust my nose into other men's porridge. It is no bread and butter of mine: Every man for himself and God for us all.
All we ask is to be let alone.
Jefferson Davis—First Message to the Confederate Congress. April 29, 1861.
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the
political bonds which have connected them with
another, and to assume among the powers of the
earth the separate and equal station to which
the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle
them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes
which impel them to the separation.
Thomas Jefferson—Declaration of IndeThe whole trouble is that we won't let God
help us.
George MacDonald—The Marquis of Lassie.
Ch. XXVII.
Voyager upon life's sea:—
To yourself be true,
And whate'er your lot may be,
Paddle your own canoe.
Dr. Edward P. Phtlpots—Paddle your own
Canoe. Written for Harry Clifton. Appeared in Harper's Monthly, May 1854.
See Notes and Queries, May 25, 1901. P.
414. Another song written by Mrs. S. K.
Bolton has same refrain. Pub. in Family
Herald, 1853. Also in Song by Mrs.
Sarah Tittle. (Barrett.)
6 I'll never
Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand,
As if a man were author of himself
And knew no other kin.
Coriolanus. Act. V. Sc. 3. L. 34.
Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear
Your favours nor your hate.
Macbeth. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 60.
Thy spirit, Independence, let me share!
Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye,
. Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare,
Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.
Smollett—Ode to Independence. L. 1.
» * * * but while
I breathe Heaven's air, and Heaven looks down
on me,
And smiles at my best meanings, I remain
Mistress of mine own self and mine own soul.
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Hail! Independence, hail! Heaven's next best
gift,
To that of life and an immortal soul!
Thomson—Liberty. Pt. V. L. 124.
L'injustice a la fin produit l'independance.
Injustice in the end produces independence.
Voltaire—Tancrede. III. 2.
Independence now: and Independence forever.
Daniel Webster—Eulogy on Adams and
Jefferson, Aug. 2, 1826.
INDIAN PIPE
Monotropa Uniflora
Pale, mournful flower, that hidest in shade
Mid dewy damps and murky glade,
With moss and mould,
Why dost thou hang thy ghastly head,
So sad and cold?
Catherine E. Beecher—To the Monotropa,
or Ghost Flower.
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Where the long, slant rays are beaming,
Where the shadows cool lie dreaming,
Pale the Indian pipes are gleaming—
Laugh, O murmuring Spring!
Sarah F. Davis—Summer Song.
I hear, I hear
The twang of harps, the leap
Of fairy feet and know the revel's ripe,
While like a coral stripe
The lizard cool doth creep,
Monster, but monarch there, up the pale Indian
Pipe.
Charles De Kay—Arcana Syharum.
Death in the wood,—
In the death-pale lips apart;
Death in a whiteness that curdled the blood,
Now black to the very heart:
The wonder by her was formed
Who stands supreme in power;
To show that life by the spirit comes
She gave us a soulless flower!
Elaine Goodale—Indian Pipe. St. 4.
INDOLENCE (See Idleness)
INFLUENCE
God in making man intended by him to reduce
all His Works back again to Himself.
Matthew Barker—: Natural Theology. P. 85.
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My heart is feminine, nor can forget—
To all, except one image, madly blind;So shakes the needle, and so stands the pole,
As vibrates my fond heart to my fix'd soul.
Byron—Don Juan. Canto I. St. 196.
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The work an unknown good man has done
is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Carlyle—Essays. Vamhagen von Ense's
Memoirs.
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go
well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is
likewise reformed by their moderation.
Cicero.
