Henry David Thoreau, 1817 - 1862
Crayon portrait by Samuel Worcester Rouse (1854)
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- What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. permalink
Henry David Thoreau - What is called genius is the abundance of life and health. permalink
Henry David Thoreau - What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. permalink
Henry David Thoreau - What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? permalink
Henry David Thoreau - What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm. permalink
Henry David Thoreau - What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new. permalink
Henry David Thoreau - What recommends commerce to me is its enterprise and bravery. It does not clasp its hands and pray to Jupiter. permalink
Henry David Thoreau - What the banker sighs for, the meanest clown may have: leisure and a quiet mind. permalink
Henry David Thoreau - Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice. permalink
Henry David Thoreau - When I had mapped the pond ... I laid a rule on the map lengthwise, and then breadthwise, and found, to my surprise, that the line of greatest length intersected the line of greatest breadth exactly at the point of greatest depth. permalink
Henry David Thoreau - Walden (1854) - When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest. permalink
Henry David Thoreau - When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly ... I think - Any fool can make a rule and every fool will mind it. permalink
Henry David Thoreau - Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. permalink
Henry David Thoreau - Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches today to save nine tomorrow. permalink
Henry David Thoreau - You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure. permalink
Henry David Thoreau
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