American - Author | July 12, 1817 - May 6, 1862
The heart is forever inexperienced.
Henry David Thoreau
RelationshipHeartForever
Men are born to succeed, not to fail.
MenSucceedBornFail
There is no just and serene criticism as yet.
CriticismSereneJust
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.
MomentGeniusFarmFarmerHouse
The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
ManWhoHeHimselfDissatisfied
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living?
LiveBetterLearnTryingLivingHow
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
SpeakYouDoneWillNeverWrite
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.
NatureKnowTrueBeesThanLeast
I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
DayWiseBornAlwaysBeen
Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder.
ManSickNurseHappensSomeOften
An unclean person is universally a slothful one.
PersonUniversallySlothful
The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.
TimeThinkRightObligationAssume
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