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Play Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does…
- After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking…
- Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed…
- Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they…
- Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the…
- The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate…
- I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live…
- Every child begins the world again, to some extent, and loves to stay outdoors, even in wet and cold. It plays house, as well as…
- The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors…
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