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Knew Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries.
- I saw a delicate flower had grown up two feet high between the horses' feet and the wheel trach. An inch more to the right…
- I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as…
- If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular…
- Bread may not always nourish us; but it always does us good, it even takes stiffness out of our joints, and makes us supple and…
- When any real progress is made, we unlearned and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
- Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything.
- If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run…
- I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
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