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Great Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . .…
- Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses.
- We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to…
- In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for,…
- Being is the great explainer.
- Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of…
- They take great pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost so little.
- A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.
- The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.
- We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
- It is a great art to saunter !
- If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention
- Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.
- Every day a new picture is painted and framed, held up for half an hour, in such lights as the Great Artist chooses, and then…
- The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.
- In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the…
- 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…
- What great interval is there between him who is caught in Africa and made a plantation slave of in the South, and him who is…
- It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain.
- The works of great poets have never been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them.
- Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high…
- Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral…
- Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high…
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- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. — Aristotle
- There is no great genius without a mixture of madness. — Aristotle
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied… — Karen Armstrong
- Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great. — Lance Armstrong
- All in all, for someone who was immersed in, fascinated by, and dedicated to flight, I was disappointed by the wrinkle in… — Neil Armstrong