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Than Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in…
- Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than…
- Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
- I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of…
- I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
- A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I…
- I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
- It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
- I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among…
- The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
- Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
- A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
- It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
- There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
- Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
- If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.
- How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
- There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
- I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
- Night is certainly more novel and less profane than day.
- Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed by them.
- The universe is wider than our views of it.
- There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.
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- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
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- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
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- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle