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Grand Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- That grand old poem called Winter
- Life is grand, and so are its environments of Past and Future. Would the face of nature be so serene and beautiful if man's destiny…
- You can hardly convince a man of error in a life-time, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow.…
- My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest…
- I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand…
- In the streets and in society I am almost invariably cheap and dissipated, my life is unspeakably mean. No amount of gold or respectability would…
More Grand Quotes
- I have no grand scheme. — Dave Attell
- Maybe if they start playing new rock bands videos, then maybe but there is no point in a guy like me spending… — Sebastian Bach
- The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit. — Ansel Adams
- When I love, I do it without counting. I give myself entirely. And each time, it is the grand love of my… — Brigitte Bardot
- Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do. — Edward Abbey
- I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence,… — John Adams
- Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. — Joseph Addison
- What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my… — William Blake
- I hardly expected the grand jury to sustain me, after they saw everything different from what it had been while I was… — Nellie Bly
- I think some of this fascination with the 'Arab Spring' is just a grand experiment with Israel's survival. — John Bolton
- Marriage is this grand madness, and I think if people knew that, they would perhaps take it more seriously. — Bono
- 'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn. — Nolan Bushnell