How To Use Henry david thoreau In A Sentence
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Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. Henry David Thoreau
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An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. Henry David Thoreau
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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
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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
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Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength. Henry David Thoreau
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In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. Henry David Thoreau
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Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing it is not fish they are after. Henry David Thoreau
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Our life is frittered away by detail...simplify, simplify, simplify! Henry David Thoreau
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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
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Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. Henry David Thoreau
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I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau agonized over pummeling a chestnut with a stone to bring down its nuts: "It is not innocent, it is not just, so to maltreat the tree that feeds us," he wrote in his journal on Oct. 23, 1855.
The mighty American chestnut tree, poised for a comeback
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Not till we are completely lost or turned around... do we begin to find ourselves. Henry David Thoreau
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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
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A titman in the 19th century could mean a small or stunted person, as Henry David Thoreau indicates when he calls his generation “a race of tit-men.”
Archive 2006-11-01
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This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction. Henry David Thoreau
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To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau took this to heart when he sequestered himself at Walden Pond and wrote Walden as a response to his experiences.
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The famous Unitarian and transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau in his book Walden wrote, "Things do not change; we change.
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A town is saved, not more by the righteous men in it than by the woods and swamps that surround it. Henry David Thoreau
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Not till we are completely lost or turned around... do we begin to find ourselves. Henry David Thoreau
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it. Henry David Thoreau
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. Henry David Thoreau
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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
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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. Henry David Thoreau
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Not till we are completely lost or turned around... do we begin to find ourselves. Henry David Thoreau
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I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau
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Henry David Thoreau described the song of one species as ‘a slumberous breathing,’ an ‘intenser dream.’
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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. Henry David Thoreau
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Nature is as well adapted to our weakness as to our strength. Henry David Thoreau
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He also visits a ship steering school in Port Revel, France, and he and his son-in-law recreate a canalboat trip taken by Henry David Thoreau and his brother John in 1839.
Archive 2006-09-01
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Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead. Henry David Thoreau
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Me thinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow. Henry David Thoreau
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement to leave off eating animals. Henry David Thoreau
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I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau
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Today's excerpts from Henry David Thoreau's Journal are in posthumous dialogue with The New York Times.
Commonplace
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. Henry David Thoreau
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One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter. Henry David Thoreau
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One must maintain a little bit of summer, even in the middle of winter. Henry David Thoreau
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Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead. Henry David Thoreau
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I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. Henry David Thoreau
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You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one. Henry David Thoreau
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Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead. Henry David Thoreau
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This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction. Henry David Thoreau
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The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day. Henry David Thoreau
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. Henry David Thoreau
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Be true to your work, your word, and your friend. Henry David Thoreau
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To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it. Henry David Thoreau
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Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. Henry David Thoreau
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What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Henry David Thoreau
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In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood. Henry David Thoreau
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Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead. Henry David Thoreau
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I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement to leave off eating animals. Henry David Thoreau
