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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Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.
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Even Nature is observed to have her playful moods or aspects, of which man sometimes seems to be the sport.
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When I consider that the noble animals have been exterminated here - the cougar, panther, lynx, wolverine, wolf, bear, moose, deer, the beaver, the turkey, etc, etc - I cannot but feel as I lived in a tamed, and, as it were, emasculated country.
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I did not know that we had ever quarreled.
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I do not know how to distinguish between waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?
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The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
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If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
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Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.
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Humor, however broad and genial, takes a narrower view than enthusiasm.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
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Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
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Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.
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What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?