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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This world is a place of business. What an infinite bustle!
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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 ways by which you may get money almost without exception lead downward.
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Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
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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
compared man opinion private public rather thinks tyrant weak
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.
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I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep, I wrote in the dark
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Far travel, very far travel, or travail, comes to almost the worth of staying home.
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Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.
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Talk of mysteries! Think of our life in Nature- daily to be shown matter, To come in contact with it- rocks, trees, wind on our cheeks. The solid earth! . . .
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I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
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Give me a wildness whose glance no civilization can endure,-as if we lived on the marrow of koodoos devoured raw
contend stupidity
Always you have to contend with the stupidity of men.
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I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die Discover that I had not lived.