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Tried Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- This was sheer idleness to my fellow-townsmen, no doubt; but if the birds and flowers had tried me by their standard, I should not have…
- All the past is here, present to be tried; let it approve itself if it can.
- As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem,…
- But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.
- My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the…
- He could not have been tried by a jury of his peers, becausehis peers did not exist.
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