There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at its root.
Quote by Henry David Thoreau
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at its root.
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Henry David Thoreau Quotes
- True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.
- The world is but a canvas to the imagination.
- There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
- All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
- To reget deeply is to live afresh.
- The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.
- Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
- The man for whom law exists -- the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man.
- All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy we reason from our hands to our head.
Best Quotes
- If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
- I get mad. I get sad. I have all those emotions. But I just like to keep them to myself. I don't think my fans need to be bothered with if I'm mad or sad about something. I should just be concerned that they are keeping up with my music or I'm making them happy with my show.
- I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
- Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
- Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
- Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.
- For most of my life I let women do the driving and was happy to let them.
- But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
- Great men are not born, they are made, Your greatness lies in your ability to make a step further than you think you can.