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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The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory
You cannot kill time without injuring eternity
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
Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
Dreams are the touchstones of our character
Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off
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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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