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Concord Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such. It is the bog in our brains and bowels,…
- The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this…
- I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of…
- Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride and prejudice, appearance…
- In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean. No amount of gold or respectability would…
- When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a…
- Would it not be worth while to discover nature in Milton? be native to the universe? I, too, love Concord best, but I am glad…
More Concord Quotes
- Opposition brings concord. Out of discord comes the fairest harmony. — Heraclitus
- Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and… — Immanuel Kant
- If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington… — Henry Ward Beecher
- Salvation and justice are not to be found in revolution, but in evolution through concord. Violence has ever achieved only destruction, not… — Pope Pius XII
- There are still to be found , or designing men, who stand ready to advocate the paradox of perpetual peace between the… — Alexander Hamilton
- That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the… — Thomas Jefferson
- The great objects which presented themselves [to the Constitutional Convention] ... formed a task more difficult than can be well conceived by… — James Madison
- What I love about New Hampshire and what we have in common is our extreme love of liberty...You're the state where the… — Michele Bachmann
- I greet you from Smyrna together with the Churches of God present here with me. They comfort me in every way, both… — Ignatius of Antioch
- Let us ever remember that our interest is in concord, not in conflict; and that our real eminence rests in the victories… — William McKinley
- Because, unlike courage and wisdom, which made our state brave and wise by being present in a particular part of it, discipline… — Plato
- Of the creative spirits that flourished in Concord, Massachusetts, it might be said that Hawthorne loved men but felt estranged from them,… — Leon Edel