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General Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Behave so the aroma of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere.
- 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…
- The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native…
- The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further off, the nearer…
- Every gazette brings accounts of the untutored freaks of the wind,shipwrecks and hurricanes which the mariner and planter accept as special or general providences; but…
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- Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct. — Jane Austen
- As a former attorney general. I have the greatest respect for the criminal justice system. But it is not good at intelligence… — Kelly Ayotte
- That the state of knowledge in any country will exert a directive influence on the general system of instruction adopted in it,… — Charles Babbage
- A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities. — Walter Bagehot
- To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality… — Mikhail Bakunin
- The General Strike has taught the working class more in four days than years of talking could have done. — Arthur Balfour
- Courtesy is only a thin veneer on the general selfishness. — Honore de Balzac
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