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Springs Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an…
- So behave that the odor of your actions may enhance the general sweetness of the atmosphere, that when we behold or scent a flower, we…
- Where there is a lull in truth an institution springs up.
- The foul slime stands for the sloth and vice of man, the decay of humanity; the fragrant flower that springs from it, for the purity…
- If you would get exercise, go in search of the springs of life.
- The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.
More Springs Quotes
- What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
- Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs. — Clive Barker
- Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a… — Scott Adams
- A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization. — Ambrose Bierce
- In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend. — Aeschylus
- For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the… — Pam Brown
- Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up. — Pearl S. Buck
- True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues… — Thomas Carlyle
- Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more. — Henri Frederic Amiel
- That is one good thing about this world - there are always sure to be more springs. — Lucy Maud Montgomery