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After all the field of battle...

After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.

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Thus men will lie on their ba...

Thus men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

A very few, as heroes, patrio...

A very few, as heroes, patriots, martyrs, reformers in the great sense, and men, serve the state with their conscience also, and so necessarily resist it for the most part, and they are commonly treated as enemies by it.

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The most primitive places lef...

The most primitive places left with us are the swamps, where the spruce still grows shaggy with usnea.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

To be in company, even with t...

To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating.

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Who cares what a man's style ...

Who cares what a man's style is, so it is intelligible,--as intelligible as his thought. Literally and really, the style is no more than the stylus, the pen he writes with; and it is not worth scraping and polishing, and gilding, unless it will write his thoughts the better for it. It is something for use, and not to look at. The question for us is, not whether Pope had a fine style, wrote with a peacock's feather, but whether he uttered useful thoughts.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Nature is full of genius, ful...

Nature is full of genius, full of divinity.

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It is darker in the woods, ev...

It is darker in the woods, even in common nights, than most suppose.

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Our inventions are wont to be...

Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at; as railroads lead to Boston or New York. We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.

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Politics is the gizzard of so...

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters - which grind on each other. Not only individuals but states have thus a confirmed dyspepsia.

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Action from principle, the pe...

Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything which was. It not only divides States and churches, it divides families; ay, it divides the individual, separating the diabolical in him from the divine.

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Haste makes waste, no less in...

Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.

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We are armed with language ad...

We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

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At least let us have healthy ...

At least let us have healthy books.

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Every man is tasked to make h...

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.

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Dwell as near as possible to ...

Dwell as near as possible to the channel in which your life flows.

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Not by constraint or severity...

Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment, and childlike mirth-fulness. If you would know aught, be gay before it.

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if i repent of anything, it i...

if i repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior. what demon possessed me that i behaved so well?

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It makes no odds where a man ...

It makes no odds where a man goes or stays, if he is only about his business.

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Our life is frittered away by...

Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

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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....