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«Truths and roses have thorns about them.»
«The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Friends
| Keywords:
can-do, Friend, simply
«Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Miracles
| Keywords:
could, each, each other, eyes, greater, instant, look, miracle, other, other places, place, take, take place, taking place, The Miracle Of The, This is the Place, through, U.S., us
«This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Imagination
| Keywords:
canvas, imagination
«Be not simply good; be good for something.»
«As if you could kill time without injuring eternity»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
As If, could, eternity, injuring, kill, The Killing
«Our life is frittered away by detail ... simplify, simplify.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
detail, fritter, fritters, fritter away
«If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost. There is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Dreams
| Keywords:
castles, Castles in The Air, castle in the air, foundations, in the air
«I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion»
«The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
desperation, lead, leading man, Mass, massed, quiet, quieted, quieter, quietest, quiets, Quiet Life
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