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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Faith never makes a confession.
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Do what nobody else can do for you. Omit to do anything else.
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The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
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Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men.
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The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
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There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
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We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.
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Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?
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An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
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Live the life you've dreamed.
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It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
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God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
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Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!