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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It appears to be a law that you cannot have a deep sympathy with both man and nature.
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There is no just and serene criticism as yet.
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I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
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What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
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I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
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They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
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Only that day dawns to which we are awake.
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Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
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We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.
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Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
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There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
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It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
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Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
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No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.