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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Associate reverently, and as much as one can with our loftiest thoughts
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For it matters not how small the beginning may seem to be: what is once well done is done forever...
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They take their pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost little
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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Always you have to contend with the stupidity of men.
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Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.
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Do not worry if you have built your castles in the air. They are where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.
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The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the character of individuals
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The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward.
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This American government -- what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all
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Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes to almost the worth of staying home.
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I should be pleased to meet man in the woods. I wish he were to be encountered like wild caribous and moose.