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Begin Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.
- For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we are lost do…
- In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.
- It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in…
- We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.
- I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, barns, cattle, and farming tools; for these are more easily…
- When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object with a traveler's,…
- 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…
- Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all surfaces,…
- Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
- It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
- Begin where you are and such as you are, without aiming mainly to become of more worth, and with kindness aforethought, go about doing good.
- If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a…
- Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we…
- If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as…
- Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!
- I begin to see an object when I cease to understand it.
- I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life…
- Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves
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