"Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the……" — Mary Hunter Austin
"Of the first philosophers, then, most thought the principles which were of the nature of matter were the only principles of all things. That of which all things that are consist, the first from which they come to be, the last into which they are resolved....this they say is the element and this is the principle of things.... yet they do not all agree as to the number and the nature of these principle is water...."
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19 Quotes by Mary Hunter Austin
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The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except…
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Man is not himself only...He is all that he sees; all that flows to him from a thousand sources...He is…
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When a woman ceases to alter the fashion of her hair, you guess that she has passed the crisis of…
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This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough
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Nothing the desert produces expresses it better than the unhappy growth of the tree yuccas
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Man learned to resort to the dance when he felt helpless or fragmentary, when he felt dislocated in his universe.
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No man can be stronger than his destiny.
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Over the tops of it, beginning to dusk under a young white moon, trailed a wavering ghost of smoke, and…
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What women have to stand on squarely [is] not their ability to see the world in the way men see…
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To underestimate one's thirst, to pass a given landmark to the right or left, to find a dry spring where…
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Death by starvation is slow.
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