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His Own Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Much is said about the progress of science in these centuries. I should say that the useful results of science had accumulated, but that there…
- Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.
- I desire that there be as many different persons in the world as possible; I would have each one be very careful to find out…
- A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There…
- It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his…
- He is the rich man, and enjoys the fruit of his riches, who summer and winter forever can find delight in his own thoughts.
- I do not believe in lawyers, in that mode of attacking or defending a man, because you descend to meet the judge on his own…
- Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmie that he can? Let…
- Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
- Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he…
- A lake is a landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is Earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own…
- See how he cowers and sneaks, how vaguely all the day he fears, not being immortal nor divine, but the slave and prisoner of his…
- Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he…
- A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own…
More His Own Quotes
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. — Saint Augustine
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses to take… — Emilie Autumn
- My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much… — Teresa of Avila
- Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as… — Teresa of Avila
- Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility… — Irving Babbitt
- We're seeing the fulfillment of the Book of Judges here in our own time - every man doing that which is right… — Michele Bachmann
- A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. — Francis Bacon
- An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he… — Walter Bagehot
- He who becomes a Muslim does so in his own interest. — Abu Bakr