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"It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man."

Henry David Thoreau on History

More quotes about History

  • "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

    Confucius on History

  • "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."

    Abraham Lincoln on History

  • "A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."

    Mahatma Gandhi on History

  • "The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little."

    Franklin D. Roosevelt on History

  • "I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."

    Thomas Jefferson on History

More quotes by Henry David Thoreau

  • "None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."

  • "I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."

  • "I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will."

  • "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone."

  • "The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."

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