Quotes by
Henry David Thoreau |
1817-1862 , American writer
American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience).
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Quotations
| • | It takes two to speak the truth — one to speak and another to hear. 9 |
| • | The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. 6 |
| • | What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? 5 |
| • | The law will never make men free; it is men who have got to make the law free. 4 |
| • | That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. 4 |
| • | It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. 4 |
| • | Be not simply good; be good for something. 4 |
| • | Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. 3 |
| • | If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. 3 |
| • | The great art of life is how to turn the surplus life of the soul into life for the body. 3 |
| • | They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar. 3 |
| • | It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about? 2 |
| • | Aeschylus had a clear eye for the commonest things. His genius was only an enlarged common sense. 2 |
| • | How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. 2 |
| • | The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. 2 |
| • | The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. 2 |
| • | Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. 2 |
| • | The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it. 2 |
| • | Never look back unless you are planning to go that way. 2 |
| • | Love must be as much a light as it is a flame. 2 |
