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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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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We were born to succeed, not to fail.