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One Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is attracted by a…
- My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
- When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?
- Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is the calyx, the…
- Visit the Navy-Yard, and behold a marine, such a man as an American government can make, or such as it can make a man with…
- Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.
- One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
- All endeavor calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish…
- The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another.…
- One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul.
- What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another…
- One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make the bones with;" and so he religiously…
- We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.
- It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.
- I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or two I could…
- Asked whether or not he believed in an afterlife, Thoreau quipped, "One world at a time."
- The study of geometry is a petty and idle exercise of the mind, if it is applied to no larger system than the starry one.…
- After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking…
- One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.
- 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…
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