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Turn Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence passes by as true to-day may…
- 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…
- The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body.
- As every season seems best to us in its turn, so the coming in of spring is like the creation of Cosmos out of Chaos…
- When the leaves fall, the whole earth is a cemetery pleasant to walk in. . . . How beautifully they go to their graves! How…
- 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…
- Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
- Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will,…
- I am a happy camper so I guess I’m doing something right. Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it…
- Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return…
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- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
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- It's not easy to take a sit-com and turn it into a feature. — Rowan Atkinson
- When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day. — Chinua Achebe
- For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn? — Jane Austen
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the… — Diane Ackerman
- Don't let your sins turn into bad habits. — Teresa of Avila
- Mostly what I listen to when I turn on my little iPod is opera. — Joan Baez
- O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out. — Abu Bakr
- If there is a State, then there is domination, and in turn, there is slavery. — Mikhail Bakunin