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Universal Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety…
- In a world of peace and love, music would be the universal language.
- I love you not as something private and personal, which is my own, but as something universal and worthy of love which I have found.
- Even in our democratic New England towns the accidental possession of wealth, and its manifestation in dress and equipage alone, obtain for the possessor almost…
- Silence is the universal refuge, the sequel to all dull discourses and all foolish acts, a balm to our every chagrin, as welcome after satiety…
- All sound heard at the greatest possible distance produces one and the same effect, a vibration of the universal lyre, just as the intervening atmosphere…
- Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.
- For my part, I feel that with regard to Nature I live a sort of border life, on the confines of a world, into which…
- A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of…
- If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a…
- The true and not despairing Friend will address his Friend in some such terms as these. "I never asked thy leave to let me love…
- I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life…
- A written word is the choicestof relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art.…
- Music is the sound of the universal laws promulgated. It is the only assured tone. There are in it such strains as far surpass any…
More Universal Quotes
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all time low over the world. — Isaac Asimov
- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- Whatever the universal nature assigns to any man at any time is for the good of that man at that time. — Marcus Aurelius
- The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
- I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is… — Francis Bacon
- A Truth is the subjective development of that which is at once both new and universal. New: that which is unforeseen by… — Alain Badiou
- Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless. — Honore de Balzac
- We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand… — Afrika Bambaataa