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 belive that there is a subtile magnetism in Nature, which, if we unconsciously yield to it, will direct us aright. It is not indifferent to us which way we walk. There is a right way; but we are very liable from heedlessness and stupidity to take the wrong one. We would fain take that walk, never yet taken by us through this actual world, which is perfectly symbolical of the path which we love to travel in the interior and ideal world; and sometimes, no doubt, we find it difficult to choose our direction, because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.
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I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone, I never found the companionable as solitude.
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There is no remedy for love than to love more.
according love merely subtle wisdom
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts; but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates.
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Love your life, poor as it is.
hate love-is violence
The violence of love is as much to be dreaded as that of hate.
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What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.
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Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house.
truth lovers knows
Only lovers know the value and magnanimity of truth.
communication love-is secret
Love is the profoundest of secrets. Divulged, even to the beloved, it is no longer Love. As if it were merely I that loved you. When love ceases, then it is divulged.
beauty love-is lovely
The object of love expands and grows before us to eternity, until it includes all that is lovely, and we become all that can love.
jesus love-is religion
I know that some will have hard thoughts of me, when they hear their Christ named beside my Buddha, yet I am sure that I am willing they should love their Christ more than my Buddha, for the love is the main thing, and I like him too.
successful love-is effort
There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful.
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Enemies publish themselves. They declare war. The friend never declares his love.