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Chiefly Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so…
- By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of…
- We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is the universe. To…
- Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral…
- I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or…
- Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
- The earth is not a mere fragment of dead history, stratum upon stratum like the leaves of a book, to be studied by geologists and…
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- Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody. — Franklin P. Adams
- The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be… — Arnold Bennett
- Fork: An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth. — Ambrose Bierce
- Our greatest foes, and whom we must chiefly combat, are within. — Miguel de Cervantes
- It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give… — William Ellery Channing
- Our first problem is that our attitude towards sin is more self-centred than God-centred. We are more concerned about our own "Victory"… — Jerry Bridges
- [M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
- A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment. — Albert Einstein
- what are the objects of an useful American education? classical knowlege, modern languages & chiefly French, Spanish, & Italian; Mathematics; Natural philosophy;… — Thomas Jefferson