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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

American Author

Born: Jul 12, 1817

Died: May 6, 1862

Life Man Men Nature Will You

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Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men. Henry David Thoreau

Men Instead Noble Us Villages Let Us

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs. Henry David Thoreau

I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartanlike as to put to rout all that was not life. Henry David Thoreau

Life Live Out Marrow Put Wanted Suck Deep

There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold. Henry David Thoreau

Life Better Worse Combine Always Uphold Which Present

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them. Henry David Thoreau

Man Together Youth Moon Build Earth Temple Perchance Materials His Gets Middle-Aged Middle-Aged Man Length Them To The Moon Bridge Palace

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are. Henry David Thoreau

Best You Will Nothing Luck Tricks Composition Write Goes

Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder. Henry David Thoreau

Man Sick Nurse Some Sounder Often Happens

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape! Henry David Thoreau

Memory Beauty Does How Human Little Inhabitants Landscape Enhance Alas

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself. Henry David Thoreau

Myself Intelligence Earth Shall Vegetable Partly Am Leaves Mould

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. Henry David Thoreau

Buy Soul Money Required Necessity

All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning. Henry David Thoreau

Family Morning Men Tale Bed Wakes Same Sends Children Them

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. Henry David Thoreau

Nature Relation Finer Poetic Pursuits Instance True Know Least Bees Than Which Certain Wholly Keeping Suggest

An unclean person is universally a slothful one. Henry David Thoreau

Slothful Person Universally

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected. Henry David Thoreau

Nature Man Genius Law Others Rules Observation He Merely Artisan Artist Whether Which Who Works

In my afternoon walk I would fain forget all my morning occupations and my obligations to society. Henry David Thoreau

Morning Obligations Walk Society Would Fain Occupations Forget Afternoon

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated. Henry David Thoreau

Books Topics Distinguished More Than Which Grandeur Manner Even Treated

Faith never makes a confession. Henry David Thoreau

Faith Confession Never Makes

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