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Best Cannot Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw…
- If you are chosen town clerk, forsooth, you cannot go to Tierra del Fuego this summer; but you may go to the land of infernal…
- We soon get through with Nature. She excites an expectation which she cannot satisfy. The merest child which has rambled into a copsewood dreams of…
- There are as many strata at different levels of life as there are leaves in a book. When on the higher levels we can remember…
- You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.
- Routine is a ground to stand on, a wall to retreat to; we cannot draw on our boots without bracing ourselves against it.
- A man receives only what he is ready to receive... The phenomenon or fact that cannot in any wise be linked with the rest of…
- I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.
- How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.
- Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
- A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
- What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
- There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself; but I…
- He who distinguishes the true savor of his food can never be a glutton; he who does not cannot be otherwise.
- Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of…
- Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a…
- Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have…
- If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.
- I think that I cannot preserve my health and spirits, unless I spend four hours a day at least - and it is commonly more…
- You cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind.
- What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!
- One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense.
- 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…
- He is perhaps the sanest man and has the fewest crotchets of any I chance to know; the same yesterday and to-morrow. Of yore we…
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- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
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- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as knowledge something… — Margaret Atwood
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden