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Born Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.
- Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and…
- Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed…
- I saw deep in the eyes of the animals the human soul look out upon me. I saw where it was born deep down under…
- We are ever dying to one world and being born into another.
- Thus the State never intentionally confronts a man's sense, intellectual or moral, but only his body, his senses. It is not armed with superior wit…
- 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…
- I was born upon thy bank, river, My blood flows in thy stream, And thou meanderest forever, At the bottom of my dream.
- He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.
- Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George the Fourth and continue the slaves of…
- Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.
- Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
- I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.
- We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
- We were born to succeed, not to fail.
- Men are born to succeed, not fail.
More Born Quotes
- As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights… — Neil Armstrong
- I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. — David Attenborough
- We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly. — Margaret Atwood
- I was born in the Ottawa General Hospital right after the Gray Cup Football Game in 1939. Six months later, I was… — Margaret Atwood
- Art is born of humiliation. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
- You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is… — Sai Baba
- The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you… — Richard Bach
- A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language. — Gaston Bachelard
- The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was… — Michelle Bachelet
- I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center point of… — Michele Bachmann
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon