Brave Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Brave Brave man Bravery Men Sadness Simple Simplicity Vulgar
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every man has his secret sadness and sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Few things are more agreeable than the spectacle of a man who loses his temper; we should be grateful to such people for providing… — Harold Nicolson Copy Share Image
Only those sadnesses are dangerous and bad which one carries about among people in order to drown them out. — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
The happy man only feels at ease because the unhappy bear their burden in silence. Without this silence, happiness would be impossible. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Men often bear little grievances with less courage than they do large misfortunes. — Aesop Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and wrong, with moral questions; and betting naturally accompanies it. The character of the voters is not staked. I cast my vote, perchance, as I think right; but I am not vitally concerned that that right should… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political. — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
I'm very proud of 'Every Girl's a Super Girl.' I want all girls to know that no matter what size, color, or shape, whatever… — JoJo Siwa Copy Share Image
And I read the moral--A brave endeavour To do thy duty, whate'er its worth, Is better than life with love forever, And love is… — James Jeffrey Roche Copy Share Image
I admire machinery as much is any man, and am as thankful to it as any man can be for what it does for… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
You know what really made me sick? I was in Washington, D.C. at another time reading in a paper where the U.S. gives Byron de la Beckwith - the man who is charged with murdering Medgar Evers - they were giving him so much money for some land and I ask "Is this America?" We can no longer ignore the… — Fannie Lou Hamer Copy Share
To be able to live and train in Iraq under these circumstances you need to be brave. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There's a fallacy with stand up comedy, which is, people come up to comedians, and they go, 'You say what I think but I'm… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
“A ‘good’ father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a ‘good’ father who is also a ‘brave’ father will let the children without cultivate… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
