Henry David Thoreau

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Biography : American essayist, poet and philosopher, best known for Walden (a record of his two‑year stay in the woods, during which he lived a simple life close to nature) and for his essay on civil disobedience.
Born: 1817 - Died: 1862
Period:
19th century
Place of birth: United States

United States

Henry David Thoreau - Quotes

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.
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Being is the great explainer.
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I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
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solitude

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
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A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
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I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.
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All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
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wisdom

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
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There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
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friendship

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
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Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
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A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
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Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself?
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What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
A phrase often attributed to Henry David Thoreau - Quotation of uncertain origin /

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.
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We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
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