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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I learned from my two years' experience that it would cost incredibly little trouble to obtain one's necessary food; that a man may use as simple a diet as the animals, and yet retain health and strength.
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Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up
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I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
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Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
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But lo! men have become the tools of their tools.
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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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Men are probably nearer the central truth in their superstitions than in their science
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Men have become the fools of their tools
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If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.
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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
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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
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The law will never make men free, it is men that have to make the law free.
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I did not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster