A Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.

Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau
American - Author
July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862

If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times. Reason is language - Logos; I gnaw on this marrowbone and will gnaw myself to death over it. It is still always dark over these depths for me: I am still always awaiting an apocalyptic angel with a key to this abyss.

Johann Georg Hamann

It is easier to gnaw through bone. Than the hide of the heart.

Diane Glancy

If you want to gnaw greenery in the morning for health reasons, do it in your own home with the curtains drawn.

Victoria Coren Mitchell

[Footnote:] To give the Beaver his due, he does things because he has to do them, not because he believes that hard work per se will somehow make him a better Beaver -- the Beaver may be dumb, but he is not that dumb! The Beaver was made to gnaw, and gnaw he does. There you have him in a nutshell.

Will Cuppy

I'm gonna make that asshole gnaw his own hand off that night, dammit.

Tammara Webber

Well, you may not know this, but there's things that gnaw at a man worse than dying.

Charlie Waite

What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.

Bill Vaughan

Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.

Henry David Thoreau

To gnaw on is human, towards digest, divine.

Mark Twain

When I have no idea, I gnaw my nails and invoke the aid of Providence.

Brander Matthews

My understanding is, the fans are so ravenous in Canada, they gnaw on the stars.

William Shatner

We shall be reduced to gnaw the very crust of the earth for nutriment.

Henry David Thoreau

I keep going over a sentence. I nag it, gnaw it, pat and flatter it.

Janet Flanner

It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs.

Hunter S. Thompson

If it is not strong upon your heart to practice what you read, to what end do you read? To increase your own condemnation? If your light and knowledge be not turned into practice, the more knowing a man you are, the more miserable a man you will be in the day of recompense; your light and knowledge will more torment you than all the devils in hell. Your knowledge will be that rod that will eternally lash you, and that scorpion that will forever bite you, and that worm that will everlastingly gnaw you; therefore read, and labor to know that you may do--or else you are undone forever.

Thomas Brooks

The chain of habit coils itself around the heart like a serpent, to gnaw and stifle it.

William Hazlitt

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