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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

American Author

Born: Jul 12, 1817

Died: May 6, 1862

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Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve. Henry David Thoreau

Respect Learning Men Out Proportion Scholarship Greatly Commonly Use Serve

I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment. Henry David Thoreau

Genius Concord Farm Every Bent Anchored Independent Follow Crooked More Could House Very Than Any Which Farmer Moment

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls. Henry David Thoreau

Great Morning Great Deal Nobody House Calls Deal Company

May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love! Henry David Thoreau

Love Our Our Love Never Occasion Repent May

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches. Henry David Thoreau

Great Men Few Know Few Men Coats Many

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. Henry David Thoreau

Worshipper Sincere Been Greeks

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution. Henry David Thoreau

Good Constitution Strange Satisfied Tried Seem Moreover Fairly Does Am Doing Doing Good May Which Full Agree Professions

I cannot read a single word of the Hindoos without being elevated. Henry David Thoreau

Word Single Read Without Single Word Being Cannot Elevated

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be. Henry David Thoreau

Nation Philosophers Never Soon Likely Am Nor Certain Should Desirable

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men. Henry David Thoreau

Death Thought Men Herd Mingle Some Advantage Common Which Even

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings. Henry David Thoreau

Men Our Has-Been Easy Kings Civilization Equally Houses Been Improved Improving While Them Create Created Inhabit Who Palaces

The law will never make a man free; it is men who have got to make the law free. Henry David Thoreau

Man Law Will Men Free Never Make Got Who

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years. Henry David Thoreau

Before Thousand Thousand Years Equal Printing Years Discovered Century

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated? Henry David Thoreau

Man Constantly He Elevated

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth. Henry David Thoreau

Truth Quality Rarest Epitaph

The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument. Henry David Thoreau

Strings All Things Tension Like Instrument Fibers Strained Things

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling. Henry David Thoreau

Imagination Wilderness Generally Does Howl Howling Speaking Traveler

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside. Henry David Thoreau

Service Books Ourselves Only Lay Reveal Often Them Aside Us

I often visited a particular plant four or five miles distant, half a dozen times within a fortnight, that I might know exactly when it opened. Henry David Thoreau

Plant Half Distant Visited Exactly Opened Particular Know Within Five Times Often Might Fortnight Miles Dozen Four

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