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 is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
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It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.
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It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.
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Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
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To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
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A man's interest in a single bluebird is worth more than a complete but dry list of the fauna and flora of a town.
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
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If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
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Thaw with her gentle persuasion is more powerful than Thor with his hammer. The one melts, the other breaks into pieces.
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After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
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I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.