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Keep Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- 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…
- Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to a majority; but…
- I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a yellow birch, or an old…
- Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life…
- Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet.
- What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other…
- Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. 2. Let your…
- We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake.
- I would remind my countrymen, that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour. No matter how valuable…
- My friend is one who takes me for what I am. A stranger takes me for something else than what I am. . . .…
- 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 must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
- Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
- A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in…
- Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute…
- 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…
- to one whose elastic and vigorous thoughts keep pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not the labors and attitudes…
- Every path but your own is the path of fate. Keep on your own track, then.
- I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or…
- Sell your clothes- keep your thoughts.
More Keep Quotes
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn! — Victoria Abril
- Everyone wants to be appreciated, so if you appreciate someone, don't keep it a secret. — Mary Kay Ash
- I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my… — Arthur Ashe
- I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile… — Arthur Ashe
- Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke. — Arthur Ashe
- Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. — Julian Assange