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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

American writer

Lived from: 1817 - 1862

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited States

Born: 12 july 1817 Died: 6 may 1862

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  • If I shall sell both my forenoons and afternoons to society, as most appear to do, I'm sure that, for me, there would be nothing left worth living for.
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  • If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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  • If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.
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  • If you give money, spend yourself with it.
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  • If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
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  • In wildness is the preservation of the world.
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  • It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
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  • It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
    Walden (1854) Chapter 1: Economy
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  • It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.
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  • It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
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  • It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
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  • It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.
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  • It takes two to speak truth - one to speak, and another to hear.
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  • Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.
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  • Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.
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  • Live your life, do your work, then take your hat.
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  • Love must be as much a light, as it is a flame.
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  • Man identifies himself with earth or material. Spirit is strange to him: he is afraid of ghosts.
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  • Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
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  • Many men go fishing their entire lives without knowing it is not fish they are after.
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