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This World Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we are lost do…
- New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.
- It is very rare that you meet with obstacles in this world, which the humblest man has not faculties to surmount.
- We have built for this world a family mansion, and the next a family tomb. The best works of art are the expression of man's…
- All things in this world must be seen with youthful, hopeful eyes.
- 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 came into this world, not chiefly to make this a good place to live in, but to live in it, be it good or…
- This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
- I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different…
More This World Quotes
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about… — Karen Armstrong
- Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape. — Antonin Artaud
- You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price. — Mary Kay Ash
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling? — Saint Augustine
- This world's a bubble. — Saint Augustine
- Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from… — Teresa of Avila
- I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the… — Teresa of Avila
- Save for the wild force of Nature, nothing moves in this world that is not Greek in its origin. — Lord Acton
- I think one of the most pervasive evils in this world is greed and acquiring money for money's sake. Once you have… — Kevin Bacon
- For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics. — Roger Bacon