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
nature civilization lasts
The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more vulgar companions.
doe genius lasts
This is one of those instances in which the individual genius is found to consent, as indeed it always does, at last, with the universal.
lasts should ennui
If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui.
science successful lasts
Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.
forever lasts firsts
Of what use the friendliest disposition even, if there are no hours given to Friendship, if it is forever postponed to unimportant duties and relations? Friendship first, Friendship last.
morning doubt lasts
It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.
government rats lasts
The oldest, wisest politician grows not more human so, but is merely a gray wharf rat at last.
truth lasts speak
If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.
education cows lasts
We boast of our system of education, but why stop at schoolmasters and schoolhouses? We are all schoolmasters, and our schoolhouse is the universe. To attend chiefly to the desk or schoolhouse while we neglect the scenery in which it is placed is absurd. If we do not look out we shall find our find schoolhouse standing in a cow-yard at last.
lasts firsts taught
What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.
powerful lasts gains
Everything counts for gain when we are cosmically awake. Nothing counts, unless we are awake. No enjoyments last, no successes satisfy, no gains have meaning unless accomplished in a state of wakefulness.
shapes lasts toil
All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil.
law forever lasts
Though the youth at last grows indifferent, the laws of the universe are not indifferent, but are forever on the side of the most sensitive.
men lasts neighbor
I please myself with imagining a State at last which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor.