« All Over Quotes · Henry David Thoreau's Page
Over Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it.
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling…
- I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.
- My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the fumes, call it,…
- Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in…
- If it is necessary, omit one bridge over the river, go round a little there, and throw one arch at least over the darker gulf…
- Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little life…
- The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.
- I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of…
- Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely…
- Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.
- However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part…
- As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened to some of…
- He is blessed over all mortals who loses no moment of the passing life in remembering the past
- To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
- The virtues of a superior man are like the wind; the virtues of a common man are like the grass; the grass, when the wind…
- The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native…
- I fear that he who walks over these fields a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples. Ah, poor man,…
- Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and…
- 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…
- I love to see that Nature is so rife with life that myriads can be afforded to be sacrificed and suffered to prey on one…
- Nature has many scenes to exhibit, and constantly draws a curtain over this part or that. She is constantly repainting the landscape and all surfaces,…
More Ways to Read Over Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
More Over Quotes
- On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is the end… — Hank Aaron
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- I'll love you, dear, I'll love you till China and Africa meet and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House… — Neil Armstrong
- I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places. — John Ashbery
- Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. — Isaac Asimov
- The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another,… — Bashar al-Assad
- The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you… — Chinua Achebe
- It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to… — David Attenborough