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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862)

Amerika · 1817 - 1862 · 395 kata bijak

Henry David Thoreau was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. A 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 in favor of citizen disobedience against an unjust state.
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Pendidikan
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Kreativitas
To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Cinta
The heart is forever inexperienced.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Nasihat
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Pendidikan
The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Kreativitas
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Waktu
As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Cinta
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Persahabatan
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Kehidupan
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Nasihat
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Kepemimpinan
That government is best which governs least.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Alam
I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Kehidupan
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Kehidupan
It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Kreativitas
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Motivasi
Dreams are the touchstones of our character.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Motivasi
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Persahabatan
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
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Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Persahabatan
I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
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