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  1. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

    If obeying the law makes you an agent of injustice, break it — be the counter‑friction that stops the machine.
    Thoreau, Henry David

  2. The Prophet

    If my voice fades in your ears and my love vanishes from your memory, I will come again—what must survive to call me back?
    Kahlil Gibran

  3. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

    Follow the faintest sure impulse of your genius — it may look like madness, but it leads to a life more starry.
    Thoreau, Henry David

  4. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

    My three pieces of limestone needed daily dusting; I threw them out the window and chose less clutter instead.
    Thoreau, Henry David

  5. Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience

    I hauled two cartloads of stones up the hill in my arms — and learned to bake bread under a few boards when storms came.
    Thoreau, Henry David

  6. Essays — First Series

    insight warns your manners will betray where your center lies—will the tone you wear confess a deity you only pretend to possess?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  7. Essays — First Series

    insight demands brutal honesty: tell your family you have lived by appearances and will no longer pretend—what will you lose to keep your liberty?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  8. Essays — First Series

    insight insists lasting writing must be born of personal truth—if a book can't change its author, why should it change you?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  9. Essays — First Series

    standalone_clarity begins with a vision: I am owner of the sphere—imagine holding Caesar's hand, Plato's brain, Christ's heart; whose voice lives in you?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  10. Essays — First Series

    hook tosses conformity aside—refuse to bow or apologize and see what a true man makes of the world; will you dare to stop pleasing?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson

  11. شوق‌های انتظاری

    دستم را بگیر! و من را از شعرهایم بیرون بیاور!
    سلیم قاضی سعیدی

  12. The Odyssey

    Some god saved him from us—shall we strike before he calls the assembly and turns the people against us?
    Homer

  13. The Odyssey

    Helen slipped an herb into the wine that banishes all sorrow—what price for a day without tears?
    Homer

  14. The Odyssey

    An arrow struck through nipple into the liver; he collapsed, cup and food spilling—what turned a feast into death?
    Homer

  15. The Odyssey

    She touched the scar and dropped his foot—joy and grief caught in her throat: could this at last be Ulysses?
    Homer