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Once Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which would make him…
- But the place which you have selected for your camp, though never so rough and grim, begins at once to have its attractions, and becomes…
- 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…
- I ask for, not at once no government, but at once a better government
- I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the…
- 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…
- But what is quackery? It is commonly an attempt to cure the diseases of a man by addressing his body alone. There is need of…
- Sometimes we are inclined to class those who are once-and-a-half witted with the half-witted, because we appreciate only a third part of their wit.
- The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors…
- When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined to ask, "Who…
- Give me the old familiar walk, postoffice and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when…
- I once found a kernel of corn in the middle of a deep wood by Walden, tucked in behind a lichen on a pine, about…
- It would be glorious to see mankind at leisure for once. It is nothing but work, work, work.
- Man flows at once to God when the channel of purity is open.
- All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- What is once well done is done forever.
- Where there is an observatory and a telescope, we expect that any eyes will see new worlds at once.
- A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of…
- For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once done well is done forever.
- I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I…
- Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he…
- Spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me…
- Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or…
- I mean that they (students) should not play life, or study it merely, while the community supports them at this expensive game, but earnestly live…
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'. — Richard Armour
- The thing about punk is that there are purists. Once you start going outside of that, they don't think what you're doing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. — Isaac Asimov
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell
- Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore. — Chet Atkins