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Henry David Thoreau Quotes


An American author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist.
Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) was an American author, poet, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, historian, philosopher, and leading transcendentalist. He is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay, Civil Disobedience, an argument for individual resistance to civil government in moral opposition to an unjust state.

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Any fool can make a rule.

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To be awake is to be alive.

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Things do not change; we change.

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The eye is the jewel of the body.

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Men are born to succeed not fail.

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'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

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When a dog runs at you whistle for him.

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Water is the only drink for a wise man.

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Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

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I have travelled a good deal in Concord.

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Men have become the tools of their tools.

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The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

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Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in.

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We must have infinite faith in each other.

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Man is the artificer of his own happiness.