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Far Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is attracted by a…
- 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…
- It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but…
- As far back as I can remember I have unconsciously referred to the experiences of a previous state of existence.
- But government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.
- I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so…
- This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star,…
- My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.
- 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…
- The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay…
- What youth or maiden conspires with the wild luxuriant beauty of Nature? She flourishes most alone, far from the towns where they reside.
- However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part…
- As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened to some of…
- The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood…
- Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item…
- It is far more independent to travel on foot. You have to sacrifice so much to the horse. You cannot choose the most agreeable places…
- A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his travels. Why not…
- 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…
- As far as our noblest hardwood forests are concerned, the animals, especially squirrels and jays, are our greatest and almost only benefactors. It is to…
- The gentle rain which waters my beans and keeps me in the house today is not drear and melancholy, but good for me too. Though…
- 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…
- It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
- God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion.
- The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.
- We saw men haying far off in the meadow, their heads waving like the grass which they cut. In the distance the wind seemed to…
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