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
suffering gold want
I did not know that mankind was suffering for want of gold.
time want treasure
Time hides no treasures; we want not its then, but its now.
land giving want
As for my own business, even that kind of surveying which I could do with most satisfaction my employers do not want. They would prefer that I should do my work coarsely and not too well, ay, not well enough. When I observe that there are different ways of surveying, my employer commonly asks which will give him the most land, not which is most correct.
integrity clothes want
Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.
real book want
Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.
responsibility purpose want
The chief want, in every state that I have been into, was a high and earnest purpose in its inhabitants.
life men want
Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.
want getting-what-you-want morality
Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get it.
home men want
Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.
justice want lovers
The lover wants no partiality. He says, Be so kind as to be just.
real upset want
I am from time to time congratulating myself on my general want of success as a lecturer; apparent want of success, but is it nota real triumph? I do my work clean as I go along, and they will not be likely to want me anywhere again. So there is no danger of my repeating myself, and getting to a barrel of sermons, which you must upset, and begin again with.
want rich wise-money
I make myself rich by making my wants few.
men want
All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.
happiness skills want
My greatest skill has been to want but little.