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Way Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.
- 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…
- The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
- Our last deed, like the young of the land crab, wends its way to the sea of cause and effect as soon as born, and…
- We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.
- Man emulates earth Earth emulates heaven Heaven emulates the Way The way emulates nature.
- We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most…
- Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in…
- The way in which men cling to old institutions after the life has departed out of them, and out of themselves, reminds me of those…
- The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had…
- The only way to tell the truth is to speak with kindness. Only the words of a loving man can be heard.
- As for the complex ways of living, I love them not, however much I practice them. In as many places as possible, I will get…
- The only way to speak the truth is to speak lovingly.
- However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is not a part…
- I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as…
- Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?
- It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.
- The man of genius knows what he is aiming at; nobody else knows. And he alone knows when something comes between him and his object.…
- I desire that there be as many different persons in the world as possible; I would have each one be very careful to find out…
- Surely one may as profitably be soaked in the juices of a swamp for one day as pick his way dry-shod over sand. Cold and…
- 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…
- I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet cushion. I would rather ride on…
- I see in many places little barberry bushes just come up densely in the cow-dung, like young apple trees, the berries having been eaten by…
- I must walk toward Oregon, and not toward Europe. And that way the nation is moving, and I may say that mankind progress from east…
- One little bird not larger than a sparrow, it may have been a Phalarope, would alight on the turbulent surface where the breakers were five…
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- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a… — J. J. Abrams
- Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and… — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen