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Wells Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.
- We should seek to be fellow students with the pupil, and should learn of, as well as with him, if we would be most helpful…
- Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. She exists for no other end. Do not resist. With the least inclination to…
- We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.
- The fire is the main comfort of the camp, whether in summer or winter, and is about as ample at one season as at another.…
- Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause - nor any charter of…
- After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking…
- We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.
- Let us first be as simple and well as Nature ourselves, dispel the clouds which hang over our brows, and take up a little life…
- True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments…
- I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite -…
- Simplicity is the law of nature for men as well as for flowers.
- Law never made man a whit more just; and by means of their respect for it, even the well disposed are daily made agents of…
- He is not a true man of science who does not bring some sympathy to his studies, and expect to learn something by behavior as…
- They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.
- How can he remember well his ignorance - which his growth requires - who has so often to use his knowledge?
- Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.
- The greater part of what my neighbors call good I believe in my soul to be bad, and if I repent of anything, it is…
- Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.
- We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has as yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion…
- It is remarkable, but on the whole, perhaps, not to be lamented, that the world is so unkind to a new book. Any distinguished traveler…
- Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long as they may…
- Shall a man not have his spring as well as the plants?
- They were pleasant spring days, in which the winter of man's discontent was thawing as well as the earth, and the life that had lain…
- Trench says a wild man is a willed man. Well, then, a man of will who does what he wills or wishes, a man of…
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- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Well begun is half done. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become living examples… — Giorgio Armani
- Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to… — Karen Armstrong
- For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East. — Karen Armstrong
- Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and… — Neil Armstrong