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Requires Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- How can we remember our ignorance, which our growth requires, when we are using our knowledge all the time?
- Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.
- Friendship is never established as an understood relation. It is a miracle which requires constant proofs. It is an exercise of the purest imagination and…
- The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.
- That aim in life is highest which requires the highest and finest discipline.
- How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?
- It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.
- If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say,…
- Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- If the injustice is part of the necessary friction of the machine of government, let it go, let it go: perchance it will wear smooth--certainly…
- To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will tax the reader more…
- The mason asks but a narrow shelf to spring his brick from; man requires only an infinitely narrower one to spring his arch of faith…
- We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
- To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will task the reader more…
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- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
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- All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact… — Roger Bacon
- A garden requires patient labor and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive… — Liberty Hyde Bailey
- Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation. — Hosea Ballou
- Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for… — Honore de Balzac
- It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only… — Albert Barnes
- To achieve some depth in your field requires a lot of sacrifices. Want to or not, you're thinking about what you're doing… — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny. — Joseph Addison
- A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay. — Dirk Benedict
- There are two ways to extend a business. Take inventory of what you're good at and extend out from your skills. Or… — Jeff Bezos