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Since most of us spend our liv...

Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Nature is fair in proportion a...

Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is the calyx, the heavens the corolla.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Yet some can be patriotic who ...

Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Silence is the universal refug...

Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety as after disappointment; that background which the painter may not daub, be he master or bungler, and which, however awkward a figure we may have made in the foreground, remains ever our inviolable asylum, where no indignity can assail, no personality can disturb us.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

We should seek to be fellow st...

We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful to him.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

To inherit property is not to ...

To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Nature is doing her best each ...

Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to be well, we should not be sick.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

We believe that the possibilit...

We believe that the possibility of the future far exceeds the accomplishment of the past. We review the past with the common sense, but we anticipate the future with transcendental senses. In our sanest moments we find ourselves naturally expecting or prepared for far greater changes than any which we have experienced within the period of distinct memory, only to be paralleled by experiences which are forgotten.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Books that are books are all t...

Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

When I consider how, after sun...

When I consider how, after sunset, the stars come out gradually in troops from behind the hills and woods, I confess that I could not have contrived a more curious and inspiring sight.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

That grand old poem called Win...

That grand old poem called Winter

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Each thought that is welcomed ...

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Morality is how you go about g...

Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The kindness I have longest re...

The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

We need only travel enough to ...

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Do not despair of life. Think ...

Do not despair of life. Think of the fox, prowling in a winter night to satisfy his hunger. His race survives; I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Sobriety, severity, and self-r...

Sobriety, severity, and self-respect are the foundations of all true sociality.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

I have been breaking silence t...

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Morning glory is the best name...

Morning glory is the best name, it always refreshes me to see it.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

No way of thinking or doing, h...

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may turn out to be falsehood to-morrow.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....