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
atheist support priests
I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.
appreciation eye appreciate
The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that which is attracted by a moral one.
distance humility cutting
We saw men haying far off in the meadow, their heads waving like the grass which they cut. In the distance the wind seemed to bend all alike.
spring weather june
It is dry, hazy June weather. We are more of the earth, farther from heaven these days.
wine men water
A man may acquire a taste for wine or brandy, and so lose his love for water, but should we not pity him.
hard-work men self
I wish to suggest that a man may be very industrious, and yet not spend his time well. There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living. All great enterprises are self-supporting. The poet, for instance, must sustain his body by his poetry, as a steam planing-mill feeds its boilers with the shavings it makes. You must get your living by loving.
adventure doors rivers
Rivers must have been the guides which conducted the footsteps of the first travelers. They are the constant lure, when they flow by our doors, to distant enterprise and adventure, and, by a natural impulse, the dwellers on their banks will at length accompany their currents to the lowlands of the globe, or explore at their invitation the interior of continents.
needs fame states
In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.
fame equal best-things
Even the best things are not equal to their fame.
character harvest
How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character?
real real-friends harmony
Friends will not only live in harmony, but in melody.
friendship real thinking
What wealth is it to have such friends that we cannot think of them without elevation!
cousin real might
How often we find ourselves turning our backs on our actual friends, that we might go and meet their ideal cousins.
self-esteem book dull
It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.