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
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Date of Birth12 July 1817
CountryUnited States of America
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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
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At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.
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In eternity there is indeed something true and sublime. But all these times and places and occasions are now and here. God himself culminates in the present moment and will never be more divine in the lapse of the ages. Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but when I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away but eternity remains.
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How can they expect a harvest of thought who have not had the seed time of character.
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The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.
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As they say in geology, time never fails, there is always enough of it, so I may say, criticism never fails.
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Time hides no treasures; we want not its then, but its now.
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All questions rely on the present for their solution. Time measures nothing but itself. The word that is written may be postponed,but not that on the lip. If this is what the occasion says, let the occasion say it.
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The true finish is the work of time, and the use to which a thing is put. The elements are still polishing the pyramids.
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What a pity if we do not live this short time according to the laws of the long time,--the eternal laws!
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Take Time by the forelock. It is also the safest part to take a serpent by.
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As yesterday and the historical ages are past, as the work of today is present, so some flitting perspectives and demi-experiencesof the life that is in nature are in time veritably future, or rather outside of time, perennial, young, divine, in the wind and rain which never die.
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What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!
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Most men I do not meet at all, for they seem not to have time; they are busy about their beans.