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«Poverty - it is life near the bone, where it is sweetest»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Poverty
| Keywords:
bone, sweetest
«Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Fashion
| Keywords:
fashions, follows, laughs, religiously, The New
«I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
bitterness, criticism, criticisms, effective, expressed, provoke, provokes, severe, severer, sorrier, sorriest, sorry, with bitterness
«To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.»
«Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Poverty,
Wealth
| Keywords:
enjoys
«I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it was necessary»
«True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
architectural, core, ornaments, possessed, revelation, so-called
«In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
bottom fish, culminate, culminated, culminates, culminating, detect, detects, fishing, lapse, lapsed, lapses, lapsing, occasions, sandy, shallow, slides, stream, sublime, thin
«Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Goodbye
| Keywords:
latitude, latitudes, spacious
«To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Gossip
| Keywords:
edit, edited, edits, edit out, gossip
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