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
education important tuition
Those things for which the most money is demanded are never the things which the student most wants. Tuition, for instance, is an important item in the term bill, while for the far more valuable education which he gets by associating with the most cultivated of his contemporaries no charge is made.
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It is not enough to be a hardworking person. Equally important is the job you are working at.
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How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!
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It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today.
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So is the English Parliament provincial. Mere country bumpkins, they betray themselves, when any more important question arises for them to settle, the Irish question, for instance,--the English question why did I not say? Their natures are subdued to what they work in. Their "good breeding" respects only secondary objects.
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The man whose horse trots a mile in a minute does not carry the most important messages.
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The Grecian are youthful and erring and fallen gods, with the vices of men, but in many important respects essentially of the divine race.
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It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.
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Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily well.
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We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.
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The way you spend Christmas is far more important than how much.
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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.
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The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them