Comprehensive information about Henry David Thoreau including biographical information, facts, literary works, and more. An American author, development critic, transcendentalist, pacifist, and philosopher.. American author poet philosopher abolitionist naturalist tax resister development critic surveyor historian and leading transcendentalist This educational Henry David Thoreau resource has information about the author's life, works, quotations, articles and essays, and more.
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Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written. Go to Quote / Comment
Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board. Go to Quote / Comment
To live a better life,—this surely can be done. Go to Quote / Comment
It takes two to speak truth -- one to speak, and another to hear. Go to Quote / Comment
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify. Go to Quote / Comment