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
lasts should ennui
If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui.
eggs hens should
Though the hen should sit all day, she could lay only one egg, and, besides, would not have picked up materials for another.
west east should
Many are concerned about the monuments of the West and the East -- to know who built them. For my part, I should like to know who in those days did not build them -- who were above such trifling.
flower bees should
The botanist should make interest with the bees if he would know when the flowers open and when they close.
betrayal our-words should
The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.
live-life order should-have
Spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy questionable liberty during the least valuable part of it, reminds me of the Englishman who went to India to make a fortune first, in order that he might return to England and live the life of a poet. He should have gone up garret at once.
despair should impart
We should impart our courage and not our despair.
wisdom self-reliance should
I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.
literature philosopher should
There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.
army should-have community
I should have liked to come across a large community of pines, which had never been invaded by the lumbering army.
loss should-have trying
I could lecture on dry oak leaves; I could, but who would hear me? If I were to try it on any large audience, I fear it would be no gain to them, and a positive loss to me. I should have behaved rudely toward my rustling friends.
hunting animal should-have
I like sometimes to take rank hold on life and spend my day more as the animals do. Perhaps I have owed to this employment and tohunting, when quite young, my closest acquaintance with Nature. They early introduce us to and detain us in scenery with which otherwise, at that age, we should have little acquaintance.
spring opportunity should-have
One attraction in coming to the woods to live was that I should have leisure and opportunity to see the spring come in.
should ends sentences
A sentence should be read as if its author, had he held a plough instead of a pen, could have drawn a furrow deep and straight to the end.