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
hate love-is violence
The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.
fear hate men
But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate.
friendship kindness hate
The richest gifts we can bestow are the least marketable. We hate the kindness which we understand.
friendship hate use
I love my friends very much, but I find that it is of no use to go to see them. I hate them commonly when I am near them. They belie themselves and deny me continually.
kindness hate
We hate the kindness which we understand.
hate
We have not so good a right to hate any as our Friend.
love hate literature
Those whom we can love, we can hate; to others we are indifferent.
hate pardon hostility
Hate can pardon more than love.
fashion hate simple
I hate the present modes of living and getting a living. Farming and shopkeeping and working at a trade or profession are all odious to me. I should relish getting my living in a simple, primitive fashion.
education hate men
I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead, to the last codicil and letter. They rule this world, and the living are but their executors. Such foundation too have our lectures and our sermons, commonly.
i-hate-you independence liberty
All good things are wild and free.
american-author fine house planet tolerable
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