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Henry David Thoreau (born David Henry Thoreau; July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862) 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" (originally published as "Resistance to Civil Government"), an argument in favor of citizen disobedience against an unjust state.

Quotes from Henry David Thoreau

If you're willing to fail interestingly, you tend to succeed interestingly.

—Henry David Thoreau

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

—Henry David Thoreau

Liberty, equality - bad principles! The only true principle for humanity is justice; and justice to the feeble is protection and kindness.

—Henry David Thoreau

What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do?

—Henry David Thoreau

He enjoys true leisure who has time to improve his soul's estate.

—Henry David Thoreau

Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.

—Henry David Thoreau

That is mine which none can steal from me.

—Henry David Thoreau

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

—Henry David Thoreau

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler.

—Henry David Thoreau

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumbnail.

—Henry David Thoreau

life simplicity simplify

The bluebird carries the sky on his back.

—Henry David Thoreau

responsibility sky lightness

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

—Henry David Thoreau

comfort aloneness austerity

Again and again I congratulate myself on my so-called poverty. I was almost disappointed yesterday to find thirty dollars in my desk which I did not know that I possessed, though now I should be sorry to lose it.

—Henry David Thoreau

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

—Henry David Thoreau

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