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Doe Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music…
- A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does…
- Even the facts of science may dust the mind by their dryness, unless they are ... rendered fertile by the dews of fresh and living…
- Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when…
- Measure your health by your sympathy with morning and spring. If there is no response in you to the awakening of nature -if the prospect…
- He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as…
- Give me a country where it is the most natural thing in the world for a government that does not understand you to let you…
- It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the…
- Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature best? Is it…
- The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly…
- Love does not analyze its object.
- The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors…
- Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
- 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…
- A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.
- Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple and…
- Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?
- My friend is one who takes me for what I am. A stranger takes me for something else than what I am. . . .…
- Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when…
- I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary wealth, I have…
- Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of…
- Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and…
- If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even,- for that is…
- He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behaviour as…
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- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- Nature does nothing in vain. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I am glad to say does not describe… — Dean Acheson
- Worry does not mean fear, but readiness for the confrontation. — Bashar al-Assad
- No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have no enemy… — Francis of Assisi
- Grant me the treasure of sublime poverty: permit the distinctive sign of our order to be that it does not possess anything… — Francis of Assisi