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Advantage Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking…
- Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them - that it was a vain endeavor?
- Governments show thus how successfully men can be imposed on, even impose on themselves, for their own advantage.
- I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as…
- In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.
- I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage than if the…
- Whether the flower looks better in the nosegay than in the meadow where it grew and we had to wet our feet to get it!…
- Water is a pioneer which the settler follows, taking advantage of its improvements.
- Today you may write a chapter on the advantages of traveling, and tomorrow you may write another chapter on the advantages of not traveling.
- A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his travels. Why not…
- There would be this advantage in traveling in your own country, even in your own neighborhood, that you would be so thoroughly prepared to understand…
- To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would…
- It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
- I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
- A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if…
- I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage than if the…
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- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
- I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999. — Lance Armstrong
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself.… — David Attenborough
- Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill… — Margaret Atwood
- I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it. — Dan Auerbach
- Life is life - whether in a cat, or dog or man. There is no difference there between a cat or a… — Sri Aurobindo
- Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree;… — Jane Austen
- The economy of human time is the next advantage of machinery in manufactures. — Charles Babbage
- Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the… — Edward Bach
- Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted… — Erykah Badu
- There are advantages to being a star though - you can always get a table in a full restaurant. — Ingrid Bergman