Henry David Thoreau
United States
12 Jul 1817 // 6 May 1862
Writer / Author / Poet
12 Jul 1817 // 6 May 1862
Writer / Author / Poet
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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him keep step to the music he hears, however measured and far away
If words were invented to conceal thought, newspapers are a great improvement of a bad invention
Nothing is so much to be feared as fear
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure
The language of friendship is not words but meanings
Being is the great explainer
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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