#furnish

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After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.


Christopher Columbus


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'Pure experience' is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.


William James


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Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.


Tatyana Tolstaya


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Not until he stood at the altar did he achieve a sense of being hale and furnished. It was strange, he thought, that a man would find his surest current in the spot where he felt least worthy.


Charles Tennyson Turner


#altar #being #current #did #felt

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.


John Locke


#knowledge #makes #materials #mind #only

Labor organizations are formed, not to employ combined effort for a common object, but to indulge in declamation and denunciation, and especially to furnish an easy living to some officers who do not want to work.


William Graham Sumner


#common #denunciation #easy #effort #employ

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.


Henry Ward Beecher


#books #else #furnishes #furniture #house

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.


Voltaire


#canvas #furnished #imagination #love is #nature

Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.


Aldous Huxley


#good #good intentions #hell #intentions #merely

It is a remarkably beautiful piece of home furnishing, the Oscar. I used to keep it up in front of a mirror so that it looked like two.


Mercedes McCambridge


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