[Water is] the only drink for a wise man.

—Henry David Thoreau

About Henry David Thoreau

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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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Things do not change; we change.

—Henry David Thoreau

I stand in awe of my body.

—Henry David Thoreau

Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

—Henry David Thoreau

The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had not sometimes got in its way.

—Henry David Thoreau

It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

—Fran Lebowitz

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

—Dr. Thomas Fuller

If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

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And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.

—A. E. Housman

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