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Indeed Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.
- We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity…
- Talk about slavery! It is not the peculiar institution of the South. It exists wherever men are bought and sold, wherever a man allows himself…
- No definition of poetry is adequate unless it be poetry itself. The most accurate analysis by the rarest wisdom is yet insufficient, and the poet…
- 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,…
- Trees indeed have hearts.
- In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in…
- I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now see it mapped in my minds eye - as, indeed,…
- Would it not be worth while to discover nature in Milton? be native to the universe? I, too, love Concord best, but I am glad…
More Indeed Quotes
- I am, indeed, a king, because I know how to rule myself. — Pietro Aretino
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. — Lucius Accius
- If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of… — Margaret Atwood
- Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it… — Saint Augustine
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Spirituality is indeed the master key of the Indian mind; the sense of the infinitive is native to it. — Sri Aurobindo
- Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to… — Ibrahim Babangida
- To those who have chosen the profession of medicine, a knowledge of chemistry, and of some branches of natural history, and, indeed,… — Charles Babbage
- God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. — Francis Bacon
- It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that'… — Douglas Adams
- Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of males? I… — Roseanne Barr