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 A human being is a part of a whole, called by us _universe_, a part li  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-07-06 00:13 
 The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.   new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 09:29 
  Founding Fathers Quotes A feeble executive implies a feeble executio  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 09:30 
  Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basica  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 09:36 
  Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons releas  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 09:49 
 Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind. -  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 09:49 
  I favor the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and it must be enforced at gunpo  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 10:05 
 Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful we must carry it  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 10:05 
 What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Hap  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 10:21 
  Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall! Ronald Reagan   new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 10:41 
 
LX

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our m  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 11:41 
 My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 13:19 
 
CXXXI

Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, 
As those whose bea  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 13:45 
 God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates e  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 14:54 
 
LXXXIII

I never saw that you did painting need,
And therefore to  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 14:58 
  No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government pr  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 15:57 
 Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 18:28 
 
CXXXI

Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, 
As those whose bea  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 18:29 
  Founding Fathers Quotes Far from being rivals or enemies, religion  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 18:30 
 
XXVI

Lord of my love, to whom in vassalage
Thy merit hath my dut  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 19:20 
 The greatest homage to truth is to use it. -Ralph Waldo Emerson  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 19:20 
 
C

Where art thou Muse that thou forget'st so long,
To speak of  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 19:21 
  The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world wi  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 19:22 
  Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. Ronald Reagan   new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 20:20 
  We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be   new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 21:07 
  I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, becaus  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 21:45 
 After I wrote this sonnet there appeared to me a miraculous vision in w  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 21:46 
 When we build, let us think that we build forever. -John Ruskin, The S  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 21:47 
 
LXXI

No longer mourn for me when I am dead
Than you shall hear t  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 22:59 
 Religion: St. Augustine Quotes For what is faith unless it is to believ  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 23:31 
 
CXLI

In faith I do not love thee with mine eyes, 
For they in th  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 23:32 
 
LV

Not marble, nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outliv  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 23:32 
 Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. --Ralph Waldo Emerson  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 23:58 
 
CXI

O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide,
The guilty goddess  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-20-06 00:05 
 
XVIII

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lov  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-07-06 00:14 
 The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. --Alber  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 09:30 
 An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 10:36 
 
LXXXIX

Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault,
And I will  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 10:36 
 There is no excellent beauty that have not some strangeness in the prop  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 10:40 
  Trust, but verify. Ronald Reagan   new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 10:40 
 Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of peopl  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 10:41 
  A baby is an alimentary canal with a loud voice at one end and no re  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 11:08 
 The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehe  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 11:28 
 
XCVI

Some say thy fault is youth, some wantonness;
Some say thy  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 11:38 
 
LVIII

That god forbid, that made me first your slave,
I should i  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 13:05 
 Beauty is the gift of God. --Aristotle  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 14:42 
 Life is eating us up. We all shall be fables presently. Keep cool: it w  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 14:44 
 We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 15:39 
 Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal. T. S. Eliot  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 15:41 
  Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by hi  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 17:40 
 
CXIX

What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,
Distill'd from l  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 17:41 
  Founding Fathers Quotes Another not unimportant consideration is, th  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 18:26 
 Beauty is truth, truth is beauty, -that is all Ye know on earth, and al  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 18:27 
  A people free to choose will always choose peace. Ronald Reagan   new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 18:27 
 
XCI

Some glory in their birth, some in their skill,
Some in thei  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 18:27 
 I believe in God like I believe in the sun rise. Not because I can see  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 19:18 
 There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear. Bible  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 19:23 
 Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have l  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 19:27 
 What seems to be proved may not be embraced; but what no one shows the  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 20:18 
 
CXLVI

Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, 
My sinful earth  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 20:19 
  Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basica  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 21:05 
 After I wrote this sonnet there appeared to me a miraculous vision in w  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 21:05 
 If it be the wish of Him in whom all things flourish that my life conti  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 21:43 
 
XXII

My glass shall not persuade me I am old,
So long as youth a  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 22:37 
 
C

Where art thou Muse that thou forget'st so long,
To speak of  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 22:52 
 The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.   new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 22:59 
 Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its vict  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 22:59 
  Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsen  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 23:55 
  Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We di  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 23:56 
 
XIX

Devouring Time, blunt thou the lion's paws,
And make the ea  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 23:56 
 I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a ro  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 23:56 
 
XXIV

Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath stell'd,
Thy be  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 09:30 
 
CXXXII

Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me,
Knowing thy h  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 10:20 
 Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not u  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 10:37 
  We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thi  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 10:40 
 
CXXIII

No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change:
Thy pyra  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 10:40 
 
CLI

Love is too young to know what conscience is, 
Yet who knows  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 10:41 
 And his heart was stirred, it felt a father's kindness: such an emotio  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 11:07 
 Time hasn't stopped for any troubles, heartaches, or any other malfunc  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 11:08 
 Knowledge: St. Augustine Quotes Miracles are not contrary to nature, bu  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 11:08 
 
XLII

That thou hast her it is not all my grief,
And yet it may b  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 11:28 
 I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music. T. S. Eliot  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 11:31 
 Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; i  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 14:42 
 Is not marriage an open question, when it is alleged, from the beginnin  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 14:43 
  It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I hav  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 14:45 
 
LXXII

O! lest the world should task you to recite
What merit liv  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 14:46 
  This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have inva  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 15:41 
 A temporary insanity curable by marriage. Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, Ame  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 17:42 
 It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic str  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 18:26 
 
CXLVI

Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth, 
My sinful earth  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 19:16 
 
XXXIV

Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day,
And make me t  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 19:18 
 Men are what their mothers made them. --Ralph Waldo Emerson  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 19:18 
 
CXVII

Accuse me thus: that I have scanted all,
Wherein I should  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 19:18 
 
LXXXIV

Who is it that says most, which can say more,
Than this r  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 19:28 
 Action: St. Augustine Quotes God provides the wind, but man must raise  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 20:19 
  Founding Fathers Quotes A good government implies two things; first,  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 20:19 
  Don't be afraid to see what you see. Ronald Reagan   new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 20:23 
 
CXXXI

Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, 
As those whose bea  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 20:27 
 
CXLIV

Two loves I have of comfort and despair,
Which like two sp  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 21:43 
 
LXXIII

That time of year thou mayst in me behold
When yellow lea  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 21:43 
 Imagination is more important than knowledge. --Albert Einstein  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 21:44 
  Founding Fathers Quotes An unlimited power to tax involves, necessar  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 22:35 
  Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the wal  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 22:52 
 
LXXXIX

Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault,
And I will  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 22:58 
 The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thi  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 22:58 
 The less a man thinks or knows about his virtues, the better we like hi  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 22:59 
  Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everythi  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 23:56 
 Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love. --Albert Ei  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 09:30 
 
LIV

O! how much more doth beauty beauteous seem
By that sweet or  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 10:20 
  They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They ar  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 10:37 
 The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education. --Alb  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 10:37 
 
XLIII

When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see,
For all the  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 10:40 
 
LXXIV

But be contented: when that fell arrest
Without all bail s  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 10:40 
 
XLIX

Against that time, if ever that time come,
When I shall see  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 10:40 
 Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not u  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 10:41 
 
CXXI

'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd,
When not to be  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 11:07 
 
LXXVIII

So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse,
And found such f  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 11:08 
  All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored unde  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 11:28 
 Beauty without expression tires. -Emerson  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 12:17 
  Founding Fathers Quotes As our president bears no resemblance to a k  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 13:08 
 
XLVI

Mine eye and heart are at a mortal war,
How to divide the c  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 13:09 
  Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their live  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 14:44 
  What makes him think a middle aged actor, who's played with a chimp,  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 14:44 
  Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty. Ronald Reaga  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 14:53 
  Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the wal  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 15:43 
 A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, edu  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 17:41 
  The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government b  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 17:42 
 
XXX

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up rem  new
Henry David Thoreau 01-19-06 18:26 
 
XLIV

If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
Injurious d &nb