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
imagination reform endeavor
We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.
life done reform
To live a better life,--this surely can be done.
history progress reform
There is no history of how bad became better.
faith reform needed
Faith, indeed, is all the reform that is needed; it is itself a reform.
apples reform gone
The era of wild apples will soon be over. I wander through old orchards of great extent, now all gone to decay, all of native fruit which for the most part went to the cider mill. But since the temperance reform and the general introduction of grafted fruit, no wild apples, such as I see everywhere in deserted pastures, and where the woods have grown up among them, are set out. I fear that he who walks over these hills a century hence will not know the pleasure of knocking off wild apples.
clothes way reform
Why do you ever mend your clothes, unless that, wearing them, you may mend your ways. Let us sing.
reform
I love reform better than its modes.
time world reform
There are theoretical reformers at all times, and all the world over, living on anticipation.
men progress reform
We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.
health reform speak
To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.
sleep effort reform
Moral reform is the effort to throw off sleep.
use reform moral
There is no such thing as accomplishing a righteous reform by the use of "expediency." There is no such thing as sliding up- hill.In morals the only sliders are backsliders.
progress important reform
It is not so important that many should be good as you, as that there be some absolute goodness somewhere; for that will leaven the whole lump.
men reform journalism
Reform keeps many scores of newspapers in its service, but not one man.