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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If misery loves company, misery has company enough
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book
If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself
So high as a tree aspires to grow, so high will it find an atmosphere suited to it
You never gain something but that you lose something
Explore thyself. Herein are demanded the eye and the nerve
Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake
As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course
We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed
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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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Essays
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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