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Henry David Thoreau

NOUN
  1. United States writer and social critic (1817-1862)

How To Use Henry David Thoreau In A Sentence

  • Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. Henry David Thoreau 
  • An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. Henry David Thoreau 
  • Leo Marx's critique of recent attention to Henry David Thoreau's late-life "ecocentric" turn [NYR, June 24 and July 15] makes strong, important claims not only about Thoreau's life and writings but also about the proper way to understand literature (particularly literature of a "pastoral" sort) and the proper direction of the whole environmental movement to boot. An Exchange on Thoreau
  • As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. Henry David Thoreau 
  • Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength. Henry David Thoreau 
  • In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. Henry David Thoreau 
  • Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after. Henry David Thoreau 
  • Our life is frittered away by detail...simplify, simplify, simplify! Henry David Thoreau 
  • As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. Henry David Thoreau 
  • Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. Henry David Thoreau 
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