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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The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindu, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none so rich inward.
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I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents.
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But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.
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Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do want society.
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In the long run you hit only what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail immediately, you had better aim at something high.
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The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked what I thought, and attended to my answer.
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If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.
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In the long run, men only hit what they aim at.
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In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.
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If you are ready to leave father and mother, and brother and sister, and wife and child and friends, and never see them again, - if you have paid your debts and made your will, and settled all your affairs, and are a free man, then you are ready for
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Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science
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Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it
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Goodness is the only investment which never fails.
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.