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Perhaps Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music…
- True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments…
- The most attractive sentences are not perhaps the wisest, but the surest and soundest.
- It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in…
- The flowers of the apple are perhaps the most beautiful of any tree's, so copious and so delicious to both sight and scent.
- It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book. Any distinguished traveler…
- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music…
- Perhaps the facts most astounding and most real are never communicated by man to man. The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as…
- The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even…
- I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to…
- Perhaps we should never procure a new suit, however ragged or dirty the old, until we have so conducted or enterprised or sailed in some…
- It would be well, perhaps, if we were to spend more of our days and nights without any obstruction between us and the celestial bodies,…
- Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions,…
- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music…
- If you would get money as a writer or lecturer, you must be popular, which is to go down perpendicularly.... You are paid for being…
- I do not know but thoughts written down thus in a journal might be printed in the same form with greater advantage than if the…
- The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively, as if the speaker had…
- With a little more deliberationin the choice of their pursuits,all men would perhaps become essentially students and observers, for certainly their nature and destiny are…
- We go eastward to realize history and study the works of art and literature, retracingthe steps of the race; we go westward as into the…
- He is perhaps the sanest man and has the fewest crotchets of any I chance to know; the same yesterday and to-morrow. Of yore we…
More Perhaps Quotes
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon
- Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
- I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul,… — Ansel Adams
- Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. — Honore de Balzac
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. — Honore de Balzac
- I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps… — Roger Bannister
- Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in… — Jacques Barzun