The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.

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• Henry David Thoreau:

  That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

• Henry David Thoreau:

  I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest - but suffer from a consta

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  I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated.

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  Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going o

• Henry David Thoreau:

  I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnigh

• Bertolt Brecht:

  What a miserable thing life is: you're living in clover, only the clover isn't good enough.

• Bertolt Brecht:

  Sometimes it's more important to be human, than to have good taste.

• Bertolt Brecht:

  One forgets too easily the difference between a man and his image, and that there is none between t

• Bertolt Brecht:

  Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

• Bertolt Brecht:

  Grub first, then ethics.