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
grateful thanksgiving
I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
happiness grateful joy
Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.
grateful mean reality
Have no mean hours, but be grateful for every hour, and accept what it brings. The reality will make any sincere record respectable.
gratitude grateful book
A journal, is a book that shall contain a record of all your joy, your ecstasy, what you are grateful for.
gratitude grateful i-am-grateful
I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.
gratitude grateful looks
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see - i.e. compare it to, something worse or better, that determines whether you are respectively grateful and happy or ungrateful and bitter.
stars grateful men
We have reason to be grateful for celestial phenomena, for they chiefly answer to the ideal in man.
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What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
man meet pleased wild wish
I should be pleased to meet man in the woods. I wish he were to be encountered like wild caribous and moose.
great mankind poets works
The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them
almost far staying travel worth
Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes to almost the worth of staying home.
Say what you have to say, not what you ought.
compared fate man opinion private public rather thinks weak
Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate
compared man opinion private public rather thinks tyrant weak
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.