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«The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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fibers, strained, strings, tension
«We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.»
«A man thinks as well through his legs and arms as this brain.»
«I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.»
«People die of fright and live of confidence.»
«We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.»
«As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.»
«If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.»
«I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
coarse, coarsely, labors, objection
«This American government / what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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American government, endeavoring, recent, transmit, unimpaired
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