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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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.
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I am never rich in money, and I am never meanly poor.
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Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.
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They who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time accumulating property. The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects, and obtains them for him; and it was certainly no great virtue to obtain it.
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Nature would not appear so rich, the profusion so rich, if we knew a use for everything.
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The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.
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The best thing a man can do for his culture when he is rich is to endeavor to carry out those schemes which he entertained when he was poor
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It is not worth the while to live by rich cookery.
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I make myself rich by making my wants few.
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. . . I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days. . . .
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What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?