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«A friend is one who takes me for what I am.»
«Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Luxury,
Mankind
| Keywords:
comforts, elevation, hindrance, hindrances, indispensable, luxuries, positive, so-called, The So
«No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
ancient, however, proof, thinking, trusted
«Friends will be much apart. They will respect more each other's privacy than their communion.»
«The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
The Law
«When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality»
«What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
origin, philosophers, the Origin
«If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
bills, bloodied, bloodiest, bloody, commit, definition, enable, innocent, peaceable, revolution, shed, tax, The State, this year, violent
«The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Travel
| Keywords:
ready, till, travels
«If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.»
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