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Unknown Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature, causes the unknown to reveal themselves. Almost any…
- My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to commune with the spirit of the universe, to be intoxicated with the fumes, call it,…
- Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of…
- I long for wildness, a nature which I cannot put my foot through, woods where the wood thrush forever sings, where the hours are early…
- Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high…
- My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unknown to my feet is perennial and constant. The highest…
- I am convinced that if all men were to live as simply as I then did, thieving and robbery would be unknown. These take place…
- The process of discovery is very simple. An unwearied and systematic application of known laws to nature causes the unknown to reveal themselves.
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- I like the unknown. I like mystery. — Eric Bana
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- Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God. — Corrie Ten Boom
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