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"If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone."
Author:     Henry David Thoreau Category:     Names

"If there be no nobility of descent in a nation, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent -- a character in them that bear rule, so fine and high and pure, that as men come within the circle of its influence, they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the Royalty of Virtue."
Author:     Henry Codman Potter Category:     Nations

"Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object."
Author:     Henry Fuseli Category:     Nature

"A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain."
Author:     Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Category:     Nostalgia

"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary."
Author:     Henry Miller Category:     Obscurity

"Private opinion is weak, but public opinion is almost omnipotent."
Author:     Henry Ward Beecher Category:     Opinions

"I think patriotism is like charity -- it begins at home."
Author:     Henry James Category:     Patriotism

"I heard the bells on Christmas Day. Their old familiar carols play. And wild and sweet the words repeat. Of peace on earth goodwill to men."
Author:     Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Category:     Peace

"The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will, and the other from a strong won't."
Author:     Henry Ward Beecher Category:     Perseverance

"To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically."
Author:     Henry David Thoreau Category:     Philosophers and Philosophy


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