Fain Quotes
Archaic language exploring desire, memory, and will
The word 'fain,' meaning gladly or willingly, gives these quotes a formal, almost antique quality suited to weighty subjects. One passage explores how the will wishes to reshape the world only to find its deepest satisfaction in giving up that wish, while another calls for reconciliation between regions after a period of political division. For a different kind of reading experience, see Stack quotes.
Here, everything is tragic through and through, and the will, that fain would shape a world according to its wish, at last can reach no greater satisfaction than the breaking of itself in dignified annulment.
The Republican party is not inflamed, as some would fain have the country believe, against the South. Its borders are wide enough for all truly loyal men to find within them peace and repose from the din and discord of...
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In its entirety, probably, it follows us at every instant; all that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness...
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A third passage describes memory as something that lingers just outside conscious awareness, always pressing to be let back in. Explore Clarence Day quotes for more essayistic reflection.
