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
natural
How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!
finding paid suspicions
We are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspected.
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Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them.
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When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
cost dinner pride
They take their pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost little
afford man number proportion rich
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
contend stupidity
Always you have to contend with the stupidity of men.
associate thoughts-and-thinking
Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.
associate thoughts
Associate reverently, and as much as one can with our loftiest thoughts
care men
There may be Gods, but they care not what men do
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A pretty little graceful fellow, too small and delicate to be rapacious.
fool mind
Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it
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The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the character of individuals
almost exception lead money ways
The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward.