Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreauwas an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government, an argument for disobedience to an unjust state...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth12 July 1817
CountryUnited States of America
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields andwoods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be coldand hungry and weary.
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Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
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Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
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Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.
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No man has ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his cloths; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience
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It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak, and another to hear.
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The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them
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There may be Gods, but they care not what men do
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest
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It's never too late to give up our prejudices.
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Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg by the side of which more will be laid.
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Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.