An American author, development critic, transcendentalist, pacifist, and philosopher.. American author poet philosopher abolitionist naturalist tax resister development critic surveyor historian and leading transcendentalist
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Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor indeed. Go to Quote / Comment
I would rather sit on a pumpkin, and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion. Go to Quote / Comment
The true harvest of my daily life is somewhat as intangible and indescribable as the tints of morning or evening. It is a little star-dust cau... Go to Quote / Comment
Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Go to Quote / Comment
The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day. Go to Quote / Comment