"What is once well done is done forever." — Henry David Thoreau

"What is once well done is done forever."

— Henry David Thoreau

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1,513 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen…
The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that…
I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.
To be awake is to be alive.
When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?
Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many…
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a…
Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily…
The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I…

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In sports... you play from the time you're eight years old, and then you're done forever. — Joe Montana
God is life. I understand that and express it. God is perfect Truth. I understand that and express it. God… — Emmet Fox
I don't think that anybody should be suspended for life for anything, other than murder. How is it helping someone… — George Steinbrenner
I shall forget you presently, my dear, So make the most of this, your little day, Your little month, your… — Edna St. Vincent Millay
For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once done well is done forever. — Henry David Thoreau

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