Common Quote by Henry David Thoreau

With impressive proof on all sides of magnificent progress, no one can rightly deny the fundamental correctness of our economic system.

— Herbert Hoover

“It creates anew the universe after it has been annihilated in our minds by the recurrence of impressions blunted by reiteration.”

— Percy Shelley

Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.

— David Mamet

Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern…

— David Mamet

Postmodernism - and is that term used much any more? - is simply a reiteration of the sophistic or the rhetorical worldview.

— David Roochnik

“Repetition breeds reiteration.”

— Sophia Nash

This American government - what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant…

— Henry David Thoreau

In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in…

— Henry David Thoreau

The universe constantly and obediently answers to our conceptions; whether we travel fast or slow, the track is laid for us. Let us spend…

— Henry David Thoreau

Is it the lumberman, then, who is the friend and lover of the pine, stands nearest to it, and understands its nature best? Is…

— Henry David Thoreau

It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient…

— Henry David Thoreau

The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.

— Henry David Thoreau