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
almost exception lead money ways
The ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward.
may way poverty
Be not anxious to avoid poverty. In this way the wealth of the universe may be securely invested.
men office way
I have travelled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me tobe doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.... The twelve labors of Hercules were trifling in comparison with those which my neighbors have undertaken; for they were only twelve, and had an end; but I could never see that these men slew or captured any monster or finished any labor.
knowledge secret way
The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.
rivers environmental way
It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.
rubber way obstacles
Trade and commerce, if they were not made of Indian rubber, would never manage to bounce over the obstacles which legislators are continually putting in their way.
thinking way loses
We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.
money may way
The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
possibility-of-change miracle way
So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.
literature way yards
Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through, and you could go in the back way.
clothes way reform
Why do you ever mend your clothes, unless that, wearing them, you may mend your ways. Let us sing.
mistake way best-way
The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right.
blow wind way
How many things are now at loose ends! Who knows which way the wind will blow tomorrow?
office way penance
I have traveled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be doing penance in a thousand remarkable ways.