Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, and leading transcendentalist.He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state
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[Water is] the only drink for a wise man. Uncategorized
When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes-- remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education-- make them hunters. Uncategorized
When a dog runs at you, whistle for him. Uncategorized
What people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Uncategorized
We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not. Uncategorized
We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected. Uncategorized
Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison. Uncategorized
To regret deeply is to live afresh. Uncategorized
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run. Uncategorized
The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way. Uncategorized
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. Uncategorized
Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth! Uncategorized
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. Uncategorized
Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk. Uncategorized
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Uncategorized
Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Uncategorized
Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify. Uncategorized
My friend is one... who take me for what I am. Uncategorized
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see. Uncategorized
If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. Uncategorized