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Less Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but…
- The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
- Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping.
- I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life…
- Most men appear never to have considered what a house is, and are actually though needlessly poor all their lives because they think that they…
- If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years learning the language…
- Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the edge…
- Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less…
- It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.
- Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
- 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…
- It is not that we love to be alone, but that we love to soar, and when we do soar, the company grows thinner and…
- I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another…
- If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as…
- I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life…
- If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly.... You are paid for being…
- I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage than if the…
- 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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- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours… — David Attenborough
- A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. — Margaret Atwood
- The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is… — Saint Augustine
- I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets… — Marcus Aurelius
- There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. — Jane Austen
- If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. — Jane Austen