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Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) was an American essayist, poet, and philosopher best known for his book *Walden*, a reflection on simple living in natural surroundings. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau championed individualism, civil disobedience, and a deep reverence for nature that continues to influence environmentalists and free thinkers to this day.

“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Love

All Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

“They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Architecture

“True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Friendship

“There are moments when all anxiety and stated toil are becalmed in the infinite leisure and repose of nature.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Nature

“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Life

“Men have become the tools of their tools.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Men

“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Alone

“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

“No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Alone

“It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Learning

“Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Faith

“It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Respect

“Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Love

“Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Friendship

“What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Motivational

“Faith never makes a confession.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Faith

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Work

“Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Money

“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

“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Time

“Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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