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
men tools
But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.
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Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but religiously follows the new.
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As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course.
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A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it
edit women
To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea.
ditch education
What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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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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There is a difference between eating and drinking for strength and for mere gluttony.
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My Aunt Maria asked me to read the life of Dr. Chalmers,which, however, I did not promise to do.Yesterday, Sunday, she was heard through the partitionshouting to my Aunt Jane, who is deaf, 'Think of it!He stood half an hour today to hear the frogs croak,and he wouldn't read the life of Chalmers.'
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Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science
men tools
Men have become the tools of their trade.
fools men tools
Men have become the fools of their tools
call names
Let us make distinctions, call things by the right names
morning sun
Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.