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
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You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else.
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Having each some shingles of thought well dried, we sat and whittled them.
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Nature is doing her best each moment to make us well. Why, nature is but another name for health.
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We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.
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We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.
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Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength.
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As for health, consider yourself well.
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Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her!
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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.
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate