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 inherit property is not to be born - is to be stillborn, rather
born success
We were born to succeed, not to fail.
born failure men
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
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The traveler must be born again on the road, and earn a passport from the elements.
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To inherit property is not to be born - it is to be still-born, rather.
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I was not born to be forced.
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We are born as innocents. We are polluted by advice.
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There is no remedy for love than to love more.
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There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and for mere gluttony.
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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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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea.
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To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts.
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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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Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.