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Lives Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded…
- Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.
- Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.
- The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the…
- Our thoughts are epochs in our lives; all else is but as a journal of the winds that blow while we are here.
- The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.
- To what end do I lead a simple life at all, pray? That I may teach others to simplify their lives? - and so all…
- We live but a fraction of our lives.
- Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
- The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly…
- Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love; and in proportion to our truthfulness and confidence in one another, our lives are divine and…
- Sometimes we are clarified and calmed healthily, as we never were before in our lives, not by an opiate, but by some unconscious obedience to…
- Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment…
- The very uprightness of the pines and maples asserts the ancient rectitude and vigor of nature. Our lives need the relief of such a background,…
- By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of…
- To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
- 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…
- There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.
- We have used up all our inherited freedom, like the young bird the albumen in the egg. It is not an era of repose. If…
- Even the death of Friends will inspire us as much as their lives. They will leave consolation to the mourners, as the rich leave money…
- Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.
- The wilderness is near as well as dear to every man. Even the oldest villages are indebted to the border of wild wood which surrounds…
- What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
- As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To…
- Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.
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- What is the possible benefit? Can this material save lives? Can it improve the quality of life in Iraq? Can it tend… — Julian Assange
- Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe the world,… — Chinua Achebe
- The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough
- I don't think we are going to become extinct. We're very clever and extremely resourceful - and we will find ways of… — David Attenborough
- I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when… — Margaret Atwood
- Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible. — Saint Augustine
- Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions… — Saint Augustine
- He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. — Marcus Aurelius
- Let men see, let them know, a real man, who lives as he was meant to live. — Marcus Aurelius