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End Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to…
- If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so…
- Who could believe in the prophecies ... that the world would end this summer, while one milkweed with faith matured its seeds.
- The improved means to the unimproved end.
- To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all…
- Before the end of December, generally, they experience their first thawing. Those which a month ago were sour, crabbed, and quite unpalatable to the civilized…
- It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.
- The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning
- The only danger in Friendship is that it will end.
- When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means…
- If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating…
- Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.
- The better part of the man is soon ploughed into the soil for compost. By a seeming fate, commonly called necessity, they are employed, as…
- A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and…
- I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live…
- Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an…
- Don't be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that it will never begin!
- Don't get to the end of your life and realize you have never lived.
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