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If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he read more
If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can't go at dawn and not many places he can't go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking -- one sport you shouldn't have to reserve a time and a court for.
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. - Letters to His Son, read more
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. - Letters to His Son, W. B. Yeats and Others.
It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.
It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by read more
The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.
Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought.
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find read more
The man who will follow precedent, but never create one, is merely an obvious example of the routineer. You find him desperately numerous in the civil service, in the official bureaus. To him government is something given as unconditionally, as absolutely as ocean or hill. He goes on winding the tape that he finds. His imagination has rarely extricated itself from under the administrative machine to gain any sense of what a human, temporary contraption the whole affair is. What he thinks is the heavens above him is nothing but the roof.
Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.
Bias and impartiality is in the eye of the beholder.
The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a read more
The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it.