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Thousand Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such…
- Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.
- In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for,…
- Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable but positive hindrances to our progress. Our life…
- That devilish Iron Horse, whose ear-rending neigh is heard throughout the town, has muddied the Boiling Spring with his foot, and he it is that…
- Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.
- It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist…
- We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the…
- Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are…
- There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who…
- 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.…
- There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
- Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
- Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count…
- Direct your eye inward, and you'll find / A thousand regions in your mind / Yet undiscovered. Travel them, and be / Expert in home-cosmography
- I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite -…
- It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to…
More Thousand Quotes
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. — Richard Bach
- The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. — Joan Baez
- The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred… — Henry Adams
- I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. — John Barrymore
- While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than… — John Adams
- I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old. — Charles Baudelaire
- Better to die ten thousand deaths than wound my honor. — Joseph Addison
- What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a… — Ludwig van Beethoven
- The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action. — Felix Adler
- The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. — William J. H. Boetcker