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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She sits composedly sentinel, with paws tucked under her, a good part of her days at present by some ridiculous little hole, the possible entry of a mouse.
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If I repent of anything, it is very likely to be my good behavior.
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Goodness is the only investment which never fails.
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Good for the body is the work of the body, good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.
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I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it was necessary
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I did not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster
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If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal -- that is your success. All nature is your congratulation . . .
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At the same time that we are earnest to explore and learn all things, we require that all things be mysterious and unexplorable, that land and sea be infinitely wild, unsurveyed and unfathomed by us because unfathomable.
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Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
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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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It is not so desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right
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Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields andwoods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be coldand hungry and weary.
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The youth may build or plant or sail, only let him not be hindered from doing that which he tells me he would like to do.
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The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried them further, in exposure to hardship and danger, than ever the New England colonist went, and led them, though not to clear and colonize the wilderness, yet