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Fain Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of…
- I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk…
- Today...the bluebirds, old and young, have revisited their box, as if they would fain repeat the summer without intervention of winter, if Nature would let…
- In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society.
- I belive that there is a subtile magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It is not indifferent…
More Fain Quotes
- We are always doing something for posterity, but I would fain see posterity do something for us. — Joseph Addison
- If all the skies were sunshine Our faces would be fain To feel once more upon them The cooling splash of rain.… — Henry Van Dyke
- Fain would I climb, yet fear I to fall. — Walter Raleigh
- I would fain die a dry death. — William Shakespeare
- I stand by my kind; and I thank God for the temptations that have brought me into sympathy with them, as I… — J. G. Holland
- King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see… — William Shakespeare
- Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg. — Robert Herrick
- What we mean by sentimentalism is that state in which a man speaks deep and true sentiments not because he feels them… — Frederick William Robertson
- Fain would we remain barbarians, if our claim to civilization were to be based on the gruesome glory of war. — Okakura Kakuzo
- In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of… — Henry David Thoreau
- A boy is a long time before he knows his alphabet, longer before he has learned to spell, and perhaps several years… — Monty Roberts
- When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community.… — Thomas Jefferson