According to my observation,a batteau, properly manned, shoots rapids as a matter of course, which a single Indian with a canoe carries… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
He could not have been tried by a jury of his peers, becausehis peers did not exist. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The bells discuss the hour's gradations, Dusty shelves hold prayers and proofs: Above, Chaldean constellations Sparkle over crowded roofs. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
These are the desolate, dark weeks when nature in its barrenness equals the stupidity of man. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
On the kitchen wall a flash of shadow: swift pilgr image of pigeons, a spiral celebration of air, of sky-deserts. — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to takepart in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. — Plato Copy Share Image
She who does not know she isa patient lies Within a tent of green, and sleeps without a sound — James Kirkup Copy Share Image
Indifference is harder to fight than hostility, and there is nothing that kills an agitationlike having everybody admit that it is fundamentally… — Crystal Eastman Copy Share Image
A bettre preest I trowe that nowher noon ys. He waited after no pompe and reverence Ne maked hym a spiced conscience,… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
And mother almost always sighs, When father carves the duck. Then all of us prepare to rise, And hold our bibs before… — Ernest Vincent Wright Wotton Copy Share Image
...give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, presseddown, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And lending it one mental fillip the more, the fact that all these people were inwardly attacked by well-nigh resistless decay, and… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
Where justice is denied, wherepoverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and whereany one class is made to feel that society is in… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
The office ... make[s] its incumbent a repair man behind a dyke. No sooner is one leak plugged than it is necessary… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Then turning to the disciples, Jesus said to them privately,Blessed are the eyes that see what you see! For I tell you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everybody thinks detectives do nothing but ask questions.But detectives have souls the same as anyone else… You know, Mrs. Beragon, being a… — Ranald MacDougall Copy Share Image
It is not generally remembered, if known, by thedescendants of the Pilgrims, that when their forefathers were spending their first memorable winter… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Boasting is often carried by certain Americans to the extreme. Often however it is areaction against slights, an effort to veil deficiencies,… — Adam G De Gurowski Copy Share Image
When I converse with a profound mind, or if at any time being alone I have good thoughts, I do not at… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The great problem of American life [is] the riddle ofauthority: the difficulty of finding a way, within a liberaland individualistic social order,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The landscape was clothed in a mild and quiet light, in which the woods and fences checkered and partitioned it with new… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I've always credited the private detective with a high degree of omniscience. Or is that only true in rental fiction? — John Paxton Copy Share Image
Two times I'm most lucky people in this world, After sleeping Before waken. I'm free from tension. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
His lips meet mine, and a flood Of sweet fire sweeps across me, so I drown Against him, die and find death… — David Herbert Lawrence Copy Share Image
Alcohol does not destroy human. He is only finish the ability to think and understand of humans. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
Alcohol does not destroy man's honor. He is only finish to the ability to thinking and understanding between good and bad things. — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
If the opponent is weak, you can win, you cocky but powerful opponent to win not only reflects your ability but also… — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
But you were not living at all, and I was half-living, so where the years blight these others, we, who were not… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
We all felt that the men aboutus were making history, and that we were looking at heroes, if we could only find… — M E W Sherwood Copy Share Image
There died a myriad, And of the best, among them, For an old bitch gone in the teeth, For a botched civilization. — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Give me the eye to see a navy in an acorn. What is there of the divine in a load of bricks?What… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is thechief occupation of mankind. — Henry Lewis Mencken Copy Share Image
The truth in a calm world, In which there is no other meaning, itself Is calm, itself is summer and night, itself… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
Let me make the superstitionsof a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I have cap and bells,' he pondered, 'I will send them to her and die'; And when the morning whitened He left… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Sweet weight, in celebration of the woman I am and of the soul of the woman I am and of the central… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
They had never had one in the house before. The strangeness of it all. Like unleashing A lion, really. Poised To pounce.… — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
This even-handed justice Commends th' ingredients of our poisoned chalice To our own lips. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brandof slavery stamped on us when we were too young to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
God, I thank you that I am not like other people: thieves, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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