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  We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbo  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:18 
 
CLI

Love is too young to know what conscience is, 
Yet who knows  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:18 
 

CXL

Be wise as thou art cruel; do not press
My tongue-tied pati  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:18 
 
V

Those hours, that with gentle work did frame
The lovely gaze w  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:18 
 
LX

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our m  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:17 
 Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. --Al  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:17 
 
CXVIII

Like as, to make our appetite more keen,
With eager compo  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:17 
 Any poet, if he is to survive beyond his 25th year, must alter; he must  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:17 
 We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:17 
  My old drama coach used to say, 'Don't just do something, stand the  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:16 
 Imagination is more important than knowledge. --Albert Einstein  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:16 
 
LXV

Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,
But sa  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:16 
  Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall! Ronald Reagan   new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:16 
 I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:16 
 Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak mind  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:16 
  We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be   new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:16 
 Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute th  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:15 
  Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders. Ronald  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:15 
 
LXXVI

Why is my verse so barren of new pride,
So far from variat  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:15 
 Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty. -Edmund Burke, A  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:15 
 April is the cruellest month. T. S. Eliot  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:14 
 
CXV

Those lines that I before have writ do lie,
Even those that  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:14 
  Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authori  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:14 
 
XX

A woman's face with nature's own hand painted,
Hast thou, t  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:13 
 We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:13 
  Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.   new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:13 
  Governments tend not to solve problems, only to rearrange them. Ronal  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:13 
 O heart, we are old; The living beauty is for younger men: We cannot pa  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:12 
 Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowlege of the past. Not tha  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:12 
 
CXX

That you were once unkind befriends me now,
And for that sor  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:12 
  Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by hi  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:12 
 When we build, let us think that we build forever. -John Ruskin, The S  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:12 
 We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emerg  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:12 
 My gaze on Beatrice, hers on Heaven, In less time than an arrow strikes  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:12 
  All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored unde  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:12 
 
XXXI

Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts,
Which I by lacking h  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:11 
 Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:11 
  The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would ste  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:11 
  I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. Clint Eastwood   new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:11 
 
XXX

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up rem  new
Henry David Thoreau 11-23-05 06:11 
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