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Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817 - 1862) was an American essayist, poet, and naturalist. Among his lasting contributions were his writings on natural history and philosophy, where he anticipated the methods and findings of ecology and environmental history, two sources of modern day environmentalism. · Can we improve this biography or this incorrect? Post your own bio in the forums. Explore books and films about Thoreau, Henry David.
"Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something."
Thoreau, Henry David on Advice
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"Live your life, do your work, then take your hat."
Thoreau, Henry David on Death and Dying
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Thoreau, Henry David on Deeds and Good Deeds
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"If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?"
Thoreau, Henry David on Desire
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"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."
Thoreau, Henry David on Desperation
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"I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark."
Thoreau, Henry David on Determination
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"Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes."
Thoreau, Henry David on Distrust
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Thoreau, Henry David on Doubt
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"Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe."
Thoreau, Henry David on Doubt
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"Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake."
Thoreau, Henry David on Dreams
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"You must not blame me if I do talk to the clouds."
Thoreau, Henry David on Eccentricity
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"How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?"
Thoreau, Henry David on Education
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"What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook."
Thoreau, Henry David on Education
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"I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well."
Thoreau, Henry David on Egotism
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"The heart is forever inexperienced."
Thoreau, Henry David on Emotions
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"Being is the great explainer."
Thoreau, Henry David on Existence
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"Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced."
Thoreau, Henry David on Experience
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"The eye is the jewel of the body."
Thoreau, Henry David on Eyes
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"Men are born to succeed, not to fail."
Thoreau, Henry David on Failure
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Thoreau, Henry David on Faith
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"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness."
Thoreau, Henry David on Faith
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"Even the best things are not equal to their fame."
Thoreau, Henry David on Fame
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"Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor."
Thoreau, Henry David on Farming and Farmers
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"People die of fright and live of confidence."
Thoreau, Henry David on Fear
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