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Fair Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is the calyx, the…
- The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is diminished to a…
- A truly good book is something as natural, and as unexpectedly and unaccountably fair and perfect, as a wild-flower discovered on the prairies of the…
- I pray that the life of this spring and summer may ever lie fair in my memory.
- Whatever your sex or position, life is a battle in which you are to show your pluck, and woe be to the coward. Whether passed…
- So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower, we…
- 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…
- We, too, were but dwellers onthe shore, like the bittern of the morning; and our pursuit,the wrecks of snails and cockles. Nevertheless, we were contented…
More Fair Quotes
- The first time Haiti had free and fair democratic elections was 1990, when I was elected. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different ethnicity or… — Chinua Achebe
- I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word! — Lauren Bacall
- Now, there are so many movies, so many festivals, and so many awards going on, each judged with each other, like your… — Javier Bardem
- The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from… — Charles Baudelaire
- Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Love consists in giving without getting in return; in giving what is not owed, what is not due the other. That's why… — Mortimer Adler
- When we ask for love, we don't ask others to be fair to us-but rather to care for us, to be considerate… — Mortimer Adler
- When it comes to idiots, America's got more than its fair share. If idiots were energy, it would be a source that… — Lewis Black
- Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge at one… — Aeschylus
- We must pronounce him fortunate who has ended his life in fair prosperity. — Aeschylus
- My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything;… — Aeschylus