Henry David Thoreau: "That man is the richest whose pleasures are..."

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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...

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If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

—Henry David Thoreau

It is pleasant to have been to a place the way a river went.

—Henry David Thoreau

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.

—Henry David Thoreau

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

—Henry David Thoreau

Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them.

—Henry David Thoreau

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

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