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Distinct Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- We believe that the possibility of the future far exceeds the accomplishment of the past. We review the past with the common sense, but we…
- To him whom contemplates a trait of natural beauty, no harm nor despair can come. The doctrines of despair, spiritual or political servitude, were never…
- We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion…
- I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or…
- The landscape was clothed in a mild and quiet light, in which the woods and fences checkered and partitioned it with new regularity, and rough…
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- The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and… — Honore de Balzac
- As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows… — John Berger
- In English we must use adjectives to distinguish the different kinds of love for which the ancients had distinct names. — Mortimer Adler
- Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses,… — William Blake
- Straight-away the ideas flow in upon me, directly from God, and not only do I see distinct themes in my mind's eye,… — Johannes Brahms
- No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate… — George Washington Carver
- Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured. — Paul Cezanne
- 'Woman on the Plaza,' with its distinct horizon, snow-like surfaces, wintry wall, stunning sunlight, sharp shadows, and hurrying figure, would become the… — Sam Abell
- We profess to teach the principles and practice of medicine, or, in other words, the science and art of medicine. Science is… — Unknown Author
- If words of command are not clear and distinct, if orders are not thoroughly understood, the general is to blame. But if… — Sun Tzu
- It equally proves, that though individual oppression may now and then proceed from the courts of justice, the general liberty of the… — Alexander Hamilton