English Philosopher

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“Red lips are not so red As the stained stones kissed by the English dead.”
—Wilfred Owen (1893–1918)

“To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)