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First Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's…
- 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…
- First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling…
- The birds I heard today, which, fortunately, did not come within the scope of my science, sang as freshly as if it had been the…
- 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…
- Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little life…
- The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish…
- It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he…
- 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…
- . . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.
- In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.
- We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.
- We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.
- What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.
- We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that…
- I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.
- There is always room and occasion enough for a true book on any subject; as there is room for more light the brightest day and…
- I would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. No matter how valuable…
- 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…
- When you are starting away, leaving your more familiar fields, for a little adventure like a walk, you look at every object with a traveler's,…
- How imperceptibly the first springing takes place!
- No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.
- The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!
- The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again.
- I see in many places little barberry bushes just come up densely in the cow-dung, like young apple trees, the berries having been eaten by…
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- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled. — Aristotle
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