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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I am not sure but I should betake myself in extremities to the liberal divinities of Greece, rather than to my country's God. Jehovah, though with us he has acquired new attributes, is more absolute and unapproachable, but hardly more divine, than Jove. He is not so much of a gentleman, not so gracious and catholic, he does not exert so intimate and genial an influence on nature, as many a god of the Greeks.
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The most domestic cat, which has lain on a rug all her days, appears quite at home in the woods, and, by her sly and stealthy behavior, proves herself more native there than the regular inhabitants.
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A minority is powerless while it conforms to the majority.
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It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.
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The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?
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Why should not a poet's cat be winged as well as his horse?
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It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar. Yet do this even till you can do better, and you may perhaps find some "Symmes' Hole" by which to get at the inside at last.
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It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.
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A kitten is so flexible that she is almost double; the hind parts are equivalent to another kitten with which the forepart plays. She does not discover that her tail belongs to her until you tread on it.
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It often happens that a man develops a deeper love and friendship with his pet cat or dog than he does with most of the other humans in his life.
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What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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I should be pleased to meet man in the woods. I wish he were to be encountered like wild caribous and moose.
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The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them