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
success war firsts
Undoubtedly, in the most brilliant successes, the first rank is always sacrificed.
forever lasts firsts
Of what use the friendliest disposition even, if there are no hours given to Friendship, if it is forever postponed to unimportant duties and relations? Friendship first, Friendship last.
spring squirrels firsts
The first pleasant days of spring come out like a squirrel and go in again.
spring firsts dawn
No mortal is alert enough to be present at the first dawn of spring.
spring firsts
How imperceptibly the first springing takes place!
country world firsts
I am a citizen of the world first, and of this country at a later and more convenient hour.
lasts firsts taught
What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.
relationship men firsts
We cannot put a noose around another man's neck without first hanging ourselves.
self-reliance firsts remember
We commonly do not remember that it is, after all, always the first person that is speaking.
respect men firsts
. . . we should be men first, and subjects afterward.
order firsts dies
In order to die, you must first have lived.
men patriotism firsts
I would remind my countrymen that they are to be men first, and Americans only at a late and convenient hour.
america islands firsts
If Columbus was the first to discover the islands, Americus Vespucius and Cabot, and the Puritans, and we their descendants, havediscovered only the shores of America.
wind firsts energy
First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it.