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
age bridge build decide gets materials maybe middle moon palace together youth
Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.
marriage drunk may
One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.
house shelter may
I now first began to inhabit my house, I may say, when I began to use it for warmth as well as shelter.
genius charity may
I confess that I have hitherto indulged very little in philanthropic enterprises.... While my townsmen and women are devoted in somany ways to the good of their fellows, I trust that one at least may be spared to other and less humane pursuits. You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else. As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.
time criticism may
As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.
time may lips
All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but not that on the lip. If this is what the occasion says, let the occasion say it.
may way poverty
Be not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested.
civilization may too-much
If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it tasks me too much. They seem to be the most civil and humane, but I may be mistaken.
men may failing
You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.
winter past may
You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not.
opportunity solitude may
To meet the objections of some inveterate cavillers, I may as well state, that if I dined out occasionally, as I always had done,and I trust shall have opportunities to do again, it was frequently to the detriment of my domestic arrangements.
art may can-do
Art may varnish and gild, but it can do no more.
true-friend heart may
Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.
friendship may needs
We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves, that there may be grounds enough for friendship.