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
american-author friendship intelligence language
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
dinner language parables
The dinner even is only the parable of a dinner, commonly.
degenerates nerves language
It would seem as if the very language of our parlors would lose all its nerve and degenerate into palaver wholly, our lives pass at such remoteness from its symbols, and its metaphors and tropes are necessarily so far fetched.
language mint pursuit
How shall we account for our pursuits, if they are original? We get the language with which to describe our various lives out of acommon mint.
men looks language
Where shall we look for standard English, but to the words of a standard man?
character adequate language
We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.
latin suggestions language
It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness of the street, to be perpetual suggestions and provocations. It is not in vain that the farmer remembers and repeats the few Latin words which he has heard.
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There is no remedy for love than to love more.
difference drinking eating mere strength
There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and for mere gluttony.
light science
With all your science can you tell how it is, and whence it is, that Light comes into the soul?
edit women
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea.
affect highest quality
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of the arts.
affect critical elevated highest man quality worthy
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour.
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To inherit property is not to be born - is to be stillborn, rather