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Instead Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which would make him…
- Removing the weeds, putting fresh soil about the bean stems, and encouraging this weed which I had sown, making the yellow soil express its summer…
- Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.
- I cannot but regard it as a kindness in those who have the steering of me that, by the want of pecuniary wealth, I have…
- Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
- Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count…
- The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up some air…
- A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and…
- 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…
- 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…
- All the morning we had heardthe sea roar on the eastern shore, which was several miles distant.... It was a very inspiriting sound to walk…
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- Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day. — John James Audubon
- A beginner must look on himself as one setting out to make a garden for his Lord's pleasure, on most unfruitful soil… — Teresa of Avila
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- Instead of creating new jobs, Republicans gave tax cuts to companies that send jobs overseas. — Joe Baca