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
speak takes truth
It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak, and another to hear.
men complaining speak
I do not speak to those who are well employed, in whatever circumstances, and they know whether they are well employed or not; but mainly to the mass of men who are discontented, and idly complaining of the hardness of their lot or of the times, when they might improve them.
men cry speak
Most men cry better than they speak. You get more nurture out of them by pinching than addressing them.
speak anxious heard
We are more anxious to speak than to be heard.
truth lasts speak
If we dealt only with the false and dishonest, we should at last forget how to speak truth.
writing men speak-english
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.
humility devil speak
I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.
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.
hearing speak loud
You must speak loud to those who are hard of hearing.
american-author fine house planet tolerable
What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
man meet pleased wild wish
I should be pleased to meet man in the woods. I wish he were to be encountered like wild caribous and moose.
great mankind poets works
The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them
almost far staying travel worth
Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes to almost the worth of staying home.
Say what you have to say, not what you ought.