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Lost Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- I have just been through the process of killing a cistudo for the sake of science; but I cannot excuse myself for this murder, and…
- I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was…
- For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we are lost do…
- The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.
- Not till we are completely lost, or turned round, do we appreciate the vastness and strangeness of Nature.
- I saw that the State was half-witted, that it was timid as a lone woman with her silver spoons, and that it did not know…
- This is a common experience in my traveling. I plod along, thinking what a miserable world this is and what miserable fellows we that inhabit…
- If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under…
- Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.
- Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression,…
- Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost.
- Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we…
- 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…
- Soon my companions were lost to my sight behind the mountain ridge in my rear, which still seemed ever retreating before me, and I climbed…
- Would it not be worth while to discover nature in Milton? be native to the universe? I, too, love Concord best, but I am glad…
- Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves
More Lost Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly… — Isaac Asimov
- I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself.… — David Attenborough
- I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very… — Margaret Atwood
- Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from… — Saint Augustine
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man… — Sai Baba
- There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. — Francis Bacon
- I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform. — Erykah Badu
- Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get… — Russell Baker