Henry David Thoreau Quotes

How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?

Henry David Thoreau

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

Topics

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My whole thing is, I've got to be as good, as courageous as what's written on the page.

Viola Davis

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I see more genuine sociability between the races in Mississippi than I see in Michigan. No question.

Jim Harrison

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I'm not a futurist, and my taste in science fiction was sort of in the gothic horror vein, not space movies and futuristic stuff.

Robert Picardo

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Is it not hard that even those who are with us should be against us - that a man's enemies, in some degree, should be those of the same household of faith? Yet so it is.

John Wesley

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Fortune raises up and fortune brings low both the man who fares well and the one who fares badly; and there is no prophet of the future for mortal men.

Sophocles

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'Boardwalk' has kind of exposed me to a different demographic. And it upped my skills in terms of the speed with which I can prep a scene, and I'm excited to apply that.

Michael Pitt

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Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Joseph Joubert

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You're not there to spread any particular- if you're Bob Marley you're there to spread a message, but very few people can do that effectively without shoving opinions down someone's throat.

Jon Fishman

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That's what we get to do as songwriters, right? You get to explore stuff.

Dierks Bentley

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The point of having a director is that they make the final decision; it's their point of view, they set the rhythm and they make the final decisions.

Christian Bale

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Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator.

Cory Gardner

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The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

Constantin Stanislavski

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