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«Remember if you marry for beauty, thou bindest thyself all thy life for that which perchance, will neither last nor please thee one year: and when thou hast it, it will be to thee of no price at all.»
«How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.»
«The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
aged,
at length,
concludes,
length,
materials,
middle-aged,
middle-aged man,
palace,
perchance,
temple,
woodshed
«We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
Adelaide,
Atlantic,
cough,
coughing,
coughs,
eager,
flap,
flapped,
flapping,
flaps,
leak,
leaking,
leaks,
leak out,
Old World,
perchance,
The Tunnel,
whooping cough
«For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?»
«We should go forth on the shortest walk perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return, - prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
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Essayist,
Philosopher,
Poet)
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Keywords:
desolate,
embalm,
embalmed,
embalming,
embalms,
go forth,
perchance,
relic,
relics,
send back,
shortest,
undying
«To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub;»