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Indeed, the Englishman's histo...

Indeed, the Englishman's history of New England commences only when it ceases to be New France.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

There is no history of how bad...

There is no history of how bad became better.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

No doubt Carlyle has a propens...

No doubt Carlyle has a propensity to exaggerate the heroic in history, that is, he creates you an ideal hero rather than another thing.... Yet what were history if he did not exaggerate it? How comes it that history never has to wait for facts, but for a man to write it? The ages may go on forgetting the facts never so long, he can remember two for every one forgotten. The musty records of history, like the catacombs, contain the perishable remains, but only in the breast of genius are embalmed the souls of heroes.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Both place and time were chang...

Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

A man will not need to study h...

A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Truth is his inspirer, and ear...

Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,--a Sharp's rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

If there is nothing new on the...

If there is nothing new on the earth, still the traveler always has a resource in the skies. They are constantly turning a new page to view. The wind sets the types on this blue ground, and the inquiring may always read a new truth there.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The whole body of what is now ...

The whole body of what is now called moral or ethical truth existed in the golden age as abstract science. Or, if we prefer, we may say that the laws of Nature are the purest morality.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Only lovers know the value and...

Only lovers know the value and magnanimity of truth.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

There are sure to be two presc...

There are sure to be two prescriptions diametrically opposite.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Here or nowhere is our heaven....

Here or nowhere is our heaven.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

As for the tenets of the Brahm...

As for the tenets of the Brahmans, we are not so much concerned to know what doctrines they held, as that they were held by any. We can tolerate all philosophies.... It is the attitude of these men, more than any communication which they make, that attracts us.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

This fond reiteration of the o...

This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Stuff a cold and starve a cold...

Stuff a cold and starve a cold are but two ways. They are the two practices, both always in full blast. Yet you must take the advice of the one school as if there was no other.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Your scheme must be the framew...

Your scheme must be the framework of the universe; all other schemes will soon be ruins.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Fame itself is but an epitaph;...

Fame itself is but an epitaph; as late, as false, as true.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

When we come down into the dis...

When we come down into the distant village, visible from the mountain-top, the nobler inhabitants with whom we peopled it have departed, and left only vermin in its desolate streets. It is the imagination of poets which puts those brave speeches into the mouths of their heroes.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

No man with a genius for legis...

No man with a genius for legislation has appeared in America. They are rare in the history of the world. There are orators, politicians, and eloquent men, by the thousand; but the speaker has not yet opened his mouth to speak who is capable of settling the much-vexed questions of the day. We love eloquence for its own sake, and not for any truth which it may utter, or any heroism it may inspire. Our legislators have not yet learned the comparative value of free trade and of freedom, of union, and of rectitude, to a nat

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

It is not enough that we are t...

It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Expect no trivial truth from m...

Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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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....