Category: philosopher
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There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold.
Henry David Thoreau
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Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
Thomas Carlyle
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Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.
Heraclitus
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Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
Francis Bacon
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Francis Bacon
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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We all know the sense of comfort of which we are conscious when a good half of the floor space in a room is unencumbered; this seems to offer us the agreeable possibility of moving about freely.
Maria Montessori
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The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Niccolo Machiavelli
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Henry David Thoreau