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Known Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost any…
- To speak practically and as a citizen, unlike those who call themselves no-government men, I ask for, not at once no government, but at once…
- Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.
- The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood…
- I turned my face more exclusively than ever to the woods, where I was better known.
- What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity…
- The American has dwindled into an Odd Fellow,-one who may be known by the development of his organ of gregariousness.
- We believe that Carlyle has, after all, more readers, and is better known to-day for thisvery originality of style, and that posterity will have reason…
- The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature causes the unknown to reveal themselves.
- It is not generally remembered, if known, by thedescendants of the Pilgrims, that when their forefathers were spending their first memorable winter in the NewWorld,…
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- The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- God is best known in not knowing him. — Saint Augustine
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon
- It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do… — Douglas Adams
- I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way… — Tallulah Bankhead
- I can tell you that I'd rather be kissed by my dogs than by some people I've known. — Bob Barker
- On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned. — Christiaan Barnard
- Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking. — Bernard Baruch
- Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been… — Bernard Baruch