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Cannot Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.
- We soon get through with nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy.
- One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously…
- Man cannot afford to be a naturalist, to look at Nature directly, but only with the side of his eye. He must look through and…
- I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for this murder, and…
- We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.
- One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow…
- This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star,…
- One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense.
- I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.
- I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the hours are early…
- When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey,…
- Thank God, they cannot cut down the clouds!
- Time cannot bend the line which God has writ.
- Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and…
- Almost all wild apples are handsome. They cannot be too gnarly and crabbed and rusty to look at. The gnarliest will have some redeeming traits…
- We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.
- I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk…
- I, who cannot stay in my chamber for a single day without acquiring some rust, and when sometimes I have stolen forth for a walk…
- He who cannot read is worse than deaf and blind, is yet but half alive, is still-born.
More Cannot Quotes
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- It is not possible to provide evidence of life after death to the five senses anymore than it is possible to provide… — Gary Zukav
- There is Nothing in this world. Which cannot be achieved. If you have the guts to do everything which it will take. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater. — Pam Brown
- Out of hate, if you try to love that love will just be a hidden hate; it cannot be anything else-you are… — Rajneesh
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida