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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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
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There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and for mere gluttony.
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There are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers.
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With all your science can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that Light comes into the soul?
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But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.
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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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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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No man has ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his cloths; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience
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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest
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It's never too late to give up our prejudices.