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Distant Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves. There is none such.
- The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same…
- 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,…
- 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,…
- All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere…
- Every sunset which I witness inspires me with the desire to go to a west as distant and as fair as that into which the…
- Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow by our doors,…
- 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…
- I picked up a bottle half buried in the wet sand, covered with barnacles, but stoppled tight, and half full ofred ale, which still smacked…
- All the morning we had heardthe sea roar on the eastern shore, which was several miles distant.... It was a very inspiriting sound to walk…
- I thank you for your letter. I was very glad to get it; and I am glad again to write to you. However slow the…
More Distant Quotes
- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world is moving… — Michelle Bachelet
- Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the vigor and… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Paramount among the responsibilities of a free press is the duty to prevent any part of the government from deceiving the people… — Hugo Black
- If Beethoven and Bach hooked up with Mozart and made a band, they could be a distant runner up to The D. — Jack Black
- October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more… — Hal Borland
- There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant… — Jean de la Bruyere
- The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. — John Burroughs
- As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is… — Chanakya
- God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual… — William Ellery Channing
- One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate. — Emile M. Cioran