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Word Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
- I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking…
- We seem to have forgotten that the expression "a liberal education" originally meant among the Romans one worthy of free men; while the learning of…
- I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute Freedom and Wildness, as contrasted with a Freedom and Culture merely civil, - to regard…
- Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
- 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…
- My days were not days of the week, bearing the stamp of any heathen deity, nor were they minced into hours and fretted by the…
- 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.…
More Word Quotes
- The thing is, acoustic could be like a four-letter word to a lot of kids. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted… — Karen Armstrong
- When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its… — Antonin Artaud
- I prefer the word 'homemaker' because 'housewife' always implies that there may be a wife someplace else. — Bella Abzug
- A word after a word after a word is power. — Margaret Atwood
- If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. — Margaret Atwood
- I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his… — Chinua Achebe
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
- I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly. — Paul Auster
- The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the… — Ibrahim Babangida
- I'm a total Democrat. I'm anti-Republican. And it's only fair that you know it... I'm liberal. The L word! — Lauren Bacall
- A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. — Burt Bacharach