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Head Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.
- My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the fumes, call it,…
- Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
- We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts…
- I am alarmed when it happens that I have walked a mile into the woods bodily, without getting there in spirit. In my afternoon walk…
- I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on a pine, about…
- Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.
- It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think…
- 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…
- 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…
- They who know of no purer sources of truth, who have traced up its stream no higher, stand, and wisely stand, by the Bible and…
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