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
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I have learned this at least by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dream, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagines, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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We feel at first as if some opportunities of kindness and sympathy were lost, but learn afterward that any pure grief is ample recompense for all. That is, if we are faithful; -- for a spent grief is but sympathy with the soul that disposes events, and is as natural as the resin of Arabian trees. -- Only nature has a right to grieve perpetually, for she only is innocent. Soon the ice will melt, and the blackbirds sing along the river which he frequented, as pleasantly as ever. The same everlasting serenity will appear in this face of God, and we will not be sorrowful, if he is not.
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At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.
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How could youths better learn to live than by once trying the experiment of living? Methinks this would educate their minds as much as mathematics
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I have learned that even the smallest house can be a home.
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I have learned that the swiftest traveller is he that goes afoot.
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All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.
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With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?
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I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
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But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little have been tried.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.
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Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
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How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
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No human being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature which holds its life by the same tenure that he does.