Famous quotes containing the words white, house and/or chief:
“Like the water, the Walden ice, seen near at hand, has a green tint, but at a distance is beautifully blue, and you can easily tell it from the white ice of the river, or the merely greenish ice of some ponds, a quarter of a mile off.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“It is written, “My house shall be called a house of prayer”; but you are making it a den of robbers.”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 21:13.
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“The chief benefit, which results from philosophy, arises in an indirect manner, and proceeds more from its secret, insensible influence, than from its immediate application.”
—David Hume (1711–1776)