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Things 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…
- If a man believes and expects great things of himself, it makes no odds where you put him, or what you show him . .…
- One of the most attractive things about the flowers is their beautiful reserve.
- How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding ; How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile.
- Of what significance are the things you can forget.
- All good things are cheap: all bad are very dear.
- Sweep away the clutter of things that complicate our lives.
- I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercise, and one of the best things which I did. They say…
- He who is only a traveler learns things at second-hand and by the halves, and is poor authority. We are most interested when science reports…
- We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.
- Four things to think about. 1. Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes. 2. Let your…
- It is strange to talk of miracles, revelations, inspiration, and the like, as things past, while love remains.
- All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.
- The prosaic man sees things badly, or with the bodily sense; but the poet sees them clad in beauty, with the spiritual sense.
- I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things, so that all our thoughts shall be tinged…
- By a conscious effort of the mind we can stand aloof from actions and their consequences; and all things, good and bad, go by us…
- Not secondary to the sun, she gives us his blaze again, Void of its flame, and sheds a softer day... In Heaven queen she is…
- I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know…
- The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere…
- Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item…
- A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed.
- I know of no redeeming qualities in myself but a sincere love for some things, and when I am reproved I fall back on to…
- Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become radiant of beauty.…
- I do not wish to kill nor to be killed, but I can foresee circumstances in which these things would be by me unavoidable.
- Action from principle, the perception and the performance of right, changes things and relations; it is essentially revolutionary, and does not consist wholly with anything…
More Things Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle