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
above advice aim good morality simply
Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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Mathematics should be mixed not only with physics but with ethics.
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But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.
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Nature is goodness crystallized.
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But labor of the hands, even when pursued to the verge of drudgery, is perhaps never the worst form of idleness. It has a constantand imperishable moral, and to the scholar it yields a classic result.
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A man had better starve at once than lose his innocence in the process of getting his bread.
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You cannot receive a shock unless you have an electric affinity for that which shocks you.
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What is morality but immemorial custom? Conscience is the chief of conservatives.
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Man's moral nature is a riddle which only eternity can solve.
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How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health!
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Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it.
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Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
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Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.
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The fact which interests us most is the life of the naturalist. The purest science is still biographical. Nothing will dignify and elevate science while it is sundered so wholly from the moral life of its devotee.