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«The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
allowance, allowances, copper, coppers, finest, gentle, leisure, leisure time, liberal, steel, steels, stone, The Finest, tools, touches, workers
«Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.»
«What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
deeds, find, new, newer, old, old people, say, try
«I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Words
| Keywords:
beware, clothes, enterprises, require, wearer, wearers
«Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Government
| Keywords:
imprisons, prison, unjustly
«I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent»
«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»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Silence
| Keywords:
balm, chagrin, disappointment, discourses, discoursing, dull, refuge, satiety, sequel, The Discourses, universal, welcome
«Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Business,
Success
| Keywords:
companions, desperate, drummer, enterprises, haste, hears, hears a different drummer, keep pace, pace, paced, paces, pacing
«Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.»
«Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.»
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