Let us make distinctions, call things by the right names
More Quotes from Henry David Thoreau:
Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.Henry David Thoreau
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.
Henry David Thoreau
Our manners have been corrupted by communication with the saints.
Henry David Thoreau
Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one.
Henry David Thoreau
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
Henry David Thoreau
If we knew all the laws of Nature, we should need only fact, or the description of one actual phenomenon, to infer all the particular results at that point.
Henry David Thoreau
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
I don't worry too much about the script, I just ad lib, like Pearl Bailey.Mahalia Jackson
Ismail Merchant was just the most seductive, passionate, outrageous, driven, genius of a man.
Glenn Close
Love is always a stranger in the house of avarice.
Andreas Capellanus