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Proportion Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Nature is fair in proportion as the youth is pure. The heavens and the earth are one flower ; the earth is the calyx, the…
- We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.
- Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love; and in proportion to our truthfulness and confidence in one another, our lives are divine and…
- Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor.
- I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life…
- There is not so good an understanding between any two, but the exposure by the one of a serious fault in the other will produce…
- A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
- Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
- If a man is alive, there is always danger that he may die, though the danger must be allowed to be less in proportion as…
- I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life…
- It is not generally remembered, if known, by thedescendants of the Pilgrims, that when their forefathers were spending their first memorable winter in the NewWorld,…
More Proportion Quotes
- I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see… — David Attenborough
- Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of considerable importance,… — Charles Babbage
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. — Francis Bacon
- Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree in which… — Honore de Balzac
- The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily proportions. — Sarah Bernhardt
- Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or… — William Blake
- To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of… — William Blake