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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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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The startings and arrivals of the cars are now the epochs in the village day.
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My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness!
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We have heard much about the poetry of mathematics, but very little of it has yet been sung. The ancients had a juster notion of their poetic value than we.
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We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!
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What you get by achieving your goals is to as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
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What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?
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If an injustice requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law. Let your life be a counter-friction to stop the government machine.
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The life which men praise and regard as successful is but one kind. Why should we exaggerate any one kind at the expense of the others?
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Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
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There are a thousand at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.
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There are now-a-days professors of philosophy but not philosophers.
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We were born to succeed, not to fail.