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Henry David Thoreau, born David Henry Thoreau
We hate the kindness which we understand.
Hate is a greater tie than love. The person we hate occupies our mind far more than the person we love.
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them. The friendships that succeed to such aversions are usually firm; for those qualities must be sterling that could not only gain our hearts, but conquer our prejudices.
We are more inclined to hate one another for points on which we differ, than to love one another for points on which we agree.
We hate some person because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
To make the people fittest to choose, and the chosen fittest to govern, will be to mend our corrupt and faulty education , to teach the people faith, not without virtue, temperance, modesty, sobriety, parsimony, justice; not to admire wealth or honor; to hate turbulence and ambition; to place every one his private welfare and happiness in the public peace, liberty and safety.
Ambition | Education | Faith | Hate | Honor | Justice | Liberty | Modesty | Peace | People | Public | Teach | Virtue | Virtue | Wealth | Will | Happiness |
Lord Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
People hate those who make them feel their own inferiority.
Hate | Inferiority | People |
Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more, and all good things are yours.
You will not attain what you love if you do not endure much that you hate, and you will not be freed from what you hate if you will not endure much from what you love.
This harmony of the soul, taken as a whole, is virtue; but the particular training in respect of pleasure and pain, which leads you always to hate what you ought to hate, and love what you ought to love from the beginning of life to the end, may be separated off; and, in my view, will be rightly called education.
Beginning | Education | Harmony | Hate | Life | Life | Love | Pain | Pleasure | Respect | Soul | Training | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Respect |
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
I hate the prostitution of the word friendship to signify modish and worldly alliances.
Hate | Friendship |
People fancy they hate poetry and they are all poets and mystics.