Henry David Thoreau

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Biography : American essayist, poet and philosopher.
Born: 1817 - Died: 1862
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: United States

United States

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Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!
Henry David Thoreau

Truth is always in harmony with herself, and is not concerned chiefly to reveal the justice that may consist with wrong-doing.
Henry David Thoreau

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.
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Do what you love. Know your own bone gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
Henry David Thoreau

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Henry David Thoreau

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive.
Henry David Thoreau

To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
Henry David Thoreau

It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear.
Henry David Thoreau

Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
Henry David Thoreau

The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
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While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.
Henry David Thoreau

I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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The bluebird carries the sky on his back.
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Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
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As for doing good that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
Henry David Thoreau

That government is best which governs least.
Henry David Thoreau

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.
Henry David Thoreau

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David Thoreau

Be not simply good - be good for something.
Henry David Thoreau

Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand.
Henry David Thoreau

The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David Thoreau

I have never found a 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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It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.
Henry David Thoreau

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?
Henry David Thoreau

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance.
Henry David Thoreau

To be admitted to Nature's hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.
Henry David Thoreau

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David Thoreau

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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