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
wise style speech
The most attractive sentences are, perhaps, not the wisest, but the surest and roundest. They are spoken firmly and conclusively,as if the speaker had a right to know what he says, and if not wise, they have at least been well learned.
silence individuality speech
The orator puts off his individuality, and is then most eloquent when most silent. He listens while he speaks, and is a hearer along with his audience.
truth oratory speech
Truth is his inspirer, and earnestness the polisher of his sentences. He could afford to lose his Sharp's rifles, while he retained his faculty of speech,--a Sharp's rifle of infinitely surer and longer range.
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It is not in vain that man speaks to man. This is the value of literature.
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Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?
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Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.
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It is the man determines what is said, not the words.
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Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing; but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.
silence speech conversation
The most difficult thing to understand during conversation is silence.
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What's the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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I should be pleased to meet man in the woods. I wish he were to be encountered like wild caribous and moose.
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The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read them
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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.