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• To preserve wild animals implies generally the creation of a forest for them to dwell in or resort to. So it is with man. A hundred years ago they sold bark in our streets peeled from our own woods. In the very aspect of those primitive and rugged trees there was, methinks, a tanning principle which hardened and consolidated the fibres of men's thoughts. Ah! already I shudder for these comparatively degenerate days of my native village, when you cannot collect a load of bark of good thickness, and we no longer produce tar and turpentine.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Animal, Men, Years

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “Civil Disobedience, and Other Essays”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• Your breathing should flow gracefully, like a river, like a watersnake crossing the water, and not like a chain of rugged mountains or the gallop of a horse. To master our breath is to be in control of our bodies and minds. Each time we find ourselves dispersed and find it difficult to gain control of ourselves by different means, the method of watching the breath should always be used.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Horse, Mean

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2016). “The Miracle of Mindfulness, Gift Edition”, p.20, Beacon Press

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• I look at the field, and I think about the boy who just made the touchdown. I think that these are the glory days for that boy, and this moment will just be another story someday because all the people who make touchdowns and home runs will become somebody's dad. And when his children look at his yearbook photograph, they will think that their dad was rugged and handsome and looked a lot happier than they are. I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I hope that they believe me.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Running, Dad, Children

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• The rugged trees are mingling Their flowery sprays in love; The ivy climbs the laurel To clasp the boughs above.

  William C. Bryant

  Ivy, Tree, Mingling

  William Cullen Bryant, “The Serenade”

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• The era of the rugged individual is giving way to the era of the team player.

  Bruce Coslet

  Teamwork, Player, Giving

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• A pack of lemmings looks like a group of rugged individualists compared with Wall Street when it gets a concept in its teeth.

  Warren Buffett

  Wall, Business, Groups

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• It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.

  Emily Carr

  Patriotic, Power, Sublime

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.383, D & M Publishers

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• The beautiful must ever rest in the arms of the sublime. The gentle needs the strong to sustain it, as much as the rock-flowers need rocks to grow on, or the ivy the rugged wall which it embraces.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Beautiful, Strong, Wall

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1854). “Sunny Memories”, p.26

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• Of all the ruinous and desolate places my uncle had ever beheld, this was the most so. It looked as if it had once been a large house of entertainment; but the roof had fallen in, in many places, and the stairs were steep, rugged, and broken. There was a huge fire-place in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. The white feathery dust of burnt wood was still strewed over the hearth, but the stove was cold, and all was dark and gloomy.

  Charles Dickens

  Uncles, Heart, Dark

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.429

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• Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; once we have left it, we can never return.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Beach, Islands, Honor

  "Satires (Satire 10)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1716.

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• The trouble is the kind of guy I want to go out with doesn't even exist... Like a rugged, chain-smoking, intellectual, adventurer guy who's really serious, but also really funny and mean.

  Daniel Clowes

  Mean, Smoking, Guy

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• What place is so rugged and so homely that there is no beauty; if you only have a sensibility to beauty?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Beauty, Sensibility, Homely

  HENRY WARD BEECHER (1855). “STAR PAPERS OR EXPERIENCES OF ART AND NATURE”, p.165

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• The moon is very rugged.

  Alan Bean

  Moon

  "Astronaut-turned-artist Alan Bean still reaching for the moon". www.cnn.com. July 16, 1999.

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• I love a sunburnt country, a land of sweeping plains,
  Of rugged mountain ranges, of droughts and flooding rains.
  I love her far horizons, I love her jewel-sea,
  Her beauty and her terror - the wide brown land for me!

  Dorothea Mackellar

  Country, Nature, Rain

  1905 'Core of My Heart', first published in the London Spectator. Collected as 'My Country' in The Closed Door, and Other Verses (1911).

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• In the desert prepare the way for the LORD; make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. Every valley shall be raised up, every mountain and hill made low; the rough ground shall become level, the rugged places a plain. And the glory of the LORD will be revealed, and all mankind together will see it. For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.

  Isaiah

  Together, Mountain, Desert

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• Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

  Jack Levine

  Character, Independent, Artist

  Jack Levine, Milton Wolf Brown (1989). “Jack Levine”, Rizzoli Intl Pubns

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• We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals; following the rugged respectability of the tribe or type.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Animal, Men, Broken

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• You know the Singaporean. He is a hard-working, industrious, rugged individual. Or we would not have made the grade. But let us also recognise that he is a champion grumbler.

  Mr. Lee

  Hard Work, Champion, Individual

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• Never before has the seductive market way of life held such sway in nearly every sphere of American life. This marketing way of life promotes addictions to stimulation and obsessions with comfort and convenience ... centered primarily around bodily pleasures and status rankings. ... The common denominator is a rugged and ragged individualism and rapacious hedonism in quest of a perennial "high" in body and mind.

  Cornel West

  Addiction, Seductive, Black History

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• Friend, hast thou considered the "rugged, all-nourishing earth," as Sophocles well names her; how she feeds the sparrow on the housetop, much more her darling man?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Names, Earth

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.233, CUP Archive

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• I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.

  Barbara Bush

  Country, Mean, Complicated

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• Only the more Rugged Mortals should attempt to Keep Up on Current Literature.

  George Ade

  Hygiene, Literature, Should

  "Fables in Slang".

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• I want somebody athletic, outgoing, at least two inches taller than I am, rugged, very outdoorsy, a leader, someone who would overpower me.

  Susan Ford

  Two, Leader, Athletic

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• No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each purple gorge is reflected with a vividness that rivals the original.

  Herbert Hoover

  Lakes, Purple, Mountain

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• Our fathers and grandfathers who poured over the Midwest were self-reliant, rugged, God-fearing people of indomitable courage...They asked only for freedom of opportunity and equal chance. In these conceptions lies the real basis of American democracy. They and their fathers give a genius to American institutions that distinguished our people from any other in the world.

  Herbert Hoover

  Lying, Father, Real

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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