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«Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
appreciated, philanthropy, sufficiently
«There may be Gods, but they care not what men do»
«Some circumstantial evidence is very strong as when you find a trout in the milk»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
circumstantial, circumstantial evidence, trout
«Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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features, meanness, refine, sensuality
«Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it»
«The art of life, of a poet's life, is, not having anything to do, to do something»
«Let us make distinctions, call things by the right names»
«That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest»
«We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
blades, double-edged, edged, strap, strapped, straps, stroke, The Return, whet, whets, whetted, whetting
«You must love the crust of the earth on which you dwell more than the sweet crust of any bread or cake. You must be able to extract nutriment out of a sand-heap. You must have so good an appetite as this, else you will live in vain.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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cake, extract, heap, nutriment, The Sweet
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