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Compared Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?
- What is the singing of birds, or any natural sound, compared with the voice of one we love.
- No method nor discipline can supersede the necessity of being forever on the alert. What is a course of history, or philosophy, or poetry, or…
- What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
- See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his…
- Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion.
- 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…
- Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates…
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- Compared to America or Europe, God isn't a big part of our lives here. I don't know anyone here who goes to… — Bjork
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