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- Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but…
- To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.
- The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible…
- The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science while…
- You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.
- The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands.
- Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.
- I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as…
- In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime,…
- He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as…
- Sometimes we are clarified and calmed healthily, as we never were before in our lives, not by an opiate, but by some unconscious obedience to…
- The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background,…
- So our human life but dies down to its root, and still puts forth its green blade to eternity.
- It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he…
- Before the land rose out of the ocean, and became dry land, chaos reigned; and between high and low water mark, where she is partially…
- If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you.
- Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.
- There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.
- He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.
- Why should not we, who have renounced the king's authority, have our national preserves, where no villages need be destroyed, in which the bear and…
- I am still a learner, not a teacher, feeding somewhat omnivorously, browsing both stalk & leaves
- Every ambitious would-be empire, clarions it abroad that she is conquering the world to bring it peace, security and freedom, and it is sacrificing her…
- The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds…
- The gentle rain which waters my beans and keeps me in the house today is not drear and melancholy, but good for me too. Though…
- I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung.
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- The structure of apartheid is still rooted in the Haitian society. When you have apartheid, you don't see those behind the walls.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- I really enjoy being single again. I spent a lot of time in a relationship and the nearer we came to the… — Dido Armstrong
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- I still don't get golf. — Lance Armstrong
- Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore. — Matthew Arnold
- People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I… — Tom Arnold
- Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try. — Mary Kay Ash
- I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored. — David Attenborough
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden