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Years Quotes by Henry David Thoreau
- If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such…
- I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.
- I lived in Judea eighteen hundred years ago, but I never knew that there was such a one as Christ among my contemporaries.
- I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the…
- The true husbandman will cease from anxiety, as the squirrels manifest no concern whether the woods will bear chestnuts this year or not, and finish…
- Each new year is a surprise to us. We find that we had virtually forgotten the note of each bird, and when we hear it…
- For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks…
- The life in us is like the water in the river. It may rise this year higher than man has ever known it, and flood…
- It is reasonable that a man should be something worthier at the end of the year than he was at the beginning.
- October is the month for painted leaves. Their rich glow now flashes round the world. As fruits and leaves and the day itself acquire a…
- The biggest happiness is when at the end of the year you feel better than at the beginning
- 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…
- We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the…
- You can hardly convince a man of error in a life-time, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow.…
- I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know…
- The very willow-rows lopped every three years for fuel or powder, - and every sizable pine and oak, or other forest tree, cut down within…
- If a man is rich and strong anywhere, it must be on his native soil. Here I have been these forty years learning the language…
- The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!
- 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…
- For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who…
- For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.
- If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- Count your age with friends but not with years.
- Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years.
- I had not lived there a week before my feet wore a path from my door to the pond-side; and though it is five or…
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- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.… — Benigno Aquino III
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put… — Lance Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz