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«We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.»
«It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.»
«Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Politics
| Keywords:
gizzard, gravel, gut
«To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.»
«We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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cap, cuts, monkey, Parcae, spins, the Graces, traveler, weaves
«Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.»
«How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.»
«Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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Fame
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coarsely, finely, hurrah, hurrahs
«Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.»
«My Aunt Maria asked me to read the life of Dr. Chalmers,which, however, I did not promise to do.Yesterday, Sunday, she was heard through the partitionshouting to my Aunt Jane, who is deaf, 'Think of it!He stood half an hour today to hear the frogs croak,and he wouldn't read the life of Chalmers.'»
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