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- The city sleeps and the country sleeps, the living sleep for their time, the dead sleep for their time, the old husband sleeps by his…
- As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.
- In nothing is there more evolution than the American mind.
- The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged - keep on - there are divine things, well envelop'd; I swear to you…
- I give you my hand, I give you my love more precious than money, I give you myself before preaching or law; Will you give…
- Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young, / The young are beautiful--but the old are more beautiful than the young.
- I know nothing grander, better exercise, better digestion, more positive proof of the past, the triumphant result of faith in human kind, than a well-contested…
- In all people I see myself - none more, and not one a barleycorn less; And the good or bad I say of myself, I…
- I think I could always live with animals. The more you're around people, the more you love animals.
- There will never be any more perfection than there is now.
- More and more too, the old name absorbs into me. Mannahatta, 'the place encircled by many swift tides and sparkling waters.' How fit a name…
- A Song of the good green grass! A song no more of the city streets; A song of farms - a song of the soil…
- There will soon be no more priests... They may wait awhile, perhaps a generation or two, dropping off by degrees. A superior breed shall take…
- Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! — ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is not nakedness then…
- A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
- The future is no more uncertain than the present.
- Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.
- All truths wait in all things, They neither hasten their own delivery nor resist it, They do not need the obstetric forceps of the surgeon,…
- Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.
- There is no God any more divine than Yourself.
- What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life.
- And I will show that there is no imperfection in the present, and can be none in the future, And I will show that whatever…
- Here the frailest leaves of me and yet my strongest lasting, Here I shade and hide my thoughts, I myself do not expose them, And…
- I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul,…
- Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I…
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- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle