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High Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- 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…
- The Heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high.
- I saw a delicate flower had grown up two feet high between the horses' feet and the wheel trach. An inch more to the right…
- Before the land rose out of the ocean, and became dry land, chaos reigned; and between high and low water mark, where she is partially…
- One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.
- The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.
- What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies…
- 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…
- One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the breakers were five…
- 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…
- In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- 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…
- High treason, when it is resistance to tyranny here below, has its origin in, and isfirst committed by, the powerthat makes and forever re-creates man.
- This burnt land was an exceedingly wild and desolateregion. Judging by the weeds and sprouts, it appeared to have been burnt about two years before.…
More High Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria
- That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that… — Julian Assange
- The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can… — Chinua Achebe
- I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good… — Diane Ackerman
- Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful. — Diane Ackerman
- Just advertising departments with legs and high heels. — Richard Avedon
- If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a… — David Axelrod
- I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters… — Dan Aykroyd
- My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to… — Jensen Ackles