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«I did not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
priest, schoolmaster, schoolmasters, support, taxed
«Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
Better To Travel, enables, reveals, traveling, value
«It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.»
«A perfectly healthy sentence, it is true, is extremely rare. For the most part we miss the hue and fragrance of the thought; as if we could be satisfied with the dews of the morning or evening without their colors, or the heavens without their azure.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
azure, colors, dews, evening, extremely, for the most part, fragrance, healthy, heavens, hue, rare, sentence, true color
«To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but to so love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Philosophy,
Simplicity,
Wisdom
| Keywords:
dictates
«Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
cherish, cherishing, hopes, kind
«Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.»
«Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them»
«To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Art,
Quality
| Keywords:
affect, arts, high quality
«I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
Father, grave, gravely, meditated, meditating, old person, persons, suppose, themes
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