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No way of thinking or doing, ...

No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Why should we leave it to Har...

Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The object of love expands an...

The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all that can love.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Everything counts for gain wh...

Everything counts for gain when we are cosmically awake. Nothing counts, unless we are awake. No enjoyments last, no successes satisfy, no gains have meaning unless accomplished in a state of wakefulness.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

If I wished to see a mountain...

If I wished to see a mountain or other scenery under the most favorable auspices, I would go to it in foul weather, so as to be there when it cleared up; we are then in the most suitable mood, and nature is most fresh and inspiring. There is no serenity so fair as that which is just established in a tearful eye.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Simplicity, simplicity, simpl...

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

It is no more dusky in ordina...

It is no more dusky in ordinary nights than our mind's habitual atmosphere, and the moonlight is as bright as our most illuminatedmoments are.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Most men cry better than they...

Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

First, there is the power of ...

First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

I respect not his labors, his...

I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if he could get anything for him; who goes to market for his god as it is; on whose farm nothing grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers, whose trees no fruits, but dollars.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

To read well, that is, to rea...

To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will tax the reader more than any exercise which the customs of the day esteem. It requires a training such as the athletes underwent, the steady intention almost of the whole life to this object. Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

If Columbus was the first to ...

If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of America.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Superfluous wealth can buy su...

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

Silence is the universal refu...

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

Sometimes we are inclined to ...

Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

My life has been the poem I w...

My life has been the poem I would have writ,
But I could not both live and utter it.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

One piece of good sense would...

One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The bad are frequently good e...

The bad are frequently good enough to let you see how bad they are, but the good as frequently endeavor to get between you and themselves.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

The greatest and saddest defe...

The greatest and saddest defect is not credulity, but an habitual forgetfulness that our science is ignorance.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

One man lies in his words, an...

One man lies in his words, and gets a bad reputation; another in his manners, and enjoys a good one.

Henry David Thoreau 3216 quotes

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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....