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Make Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain-I find no sea room-but in great souls I sail before the…
- What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves. As the enterprise…
- The discoveries which we make abroad are special and particular; those which we make at home are general and significant. The further off, the nearer…
- It takes a man of genius to travel in his own country, in his native village; to make any progress between his door and his…
- A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his travels. Why not…
- There would be this advantage in traveling in your own country, even in your own neighborhood, that you would be so thoroughly prepared to understand…
- Books of natural history make the most cheerful winter reading. I read in Audubon with a thrill of delight, when the snow covers the ground,…
- For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world, into which…
- Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for…
- Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.
- I do not judge men by anything they can do. Their greatest deed is the impression they make on me.
- I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly…
- Nowadays almost all man's improvements, so called, as the building of houses and the cutting down of the forest and of all large trees, simply…
- As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
- Others -- as most legislators, politicians, lawyers, ministers, and office-holders -- serve the state chiefly with their heads; and, as they rarely make any moral…
- I came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or…
- I make my own time. I make my own terms. I cannot see how God or Nature can ever get the start of me.
- 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…
- Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest.…
- Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.
- Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
- It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
- The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free.
- Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.
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