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Important Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.
- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music…
- 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…
- How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!
- It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Equally important is the job you are working at.
- Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item…
- It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.
- Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an…
- The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.
- It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of to-day.
- What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
- What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. --Henry David Thoreau
- It seems to us that no travelerhas ever explored them, and not with standing the wonders which science is else where revealing every day, who…
- I am more and more convinced that, with referenceto any public question, it is more important to know what the country thinks of it than…
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- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash
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