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Letter "H" » Henry David Thoreau Quotes
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«To inherit property is not to be born - is to be stillborn, rather»
«For eighteen hundred years, though perchance I have no right to say it, the New Testament has been written; yet where is the legislator who has wisdom and practical talent enough to avail himself of the light which it sheds on the science of legislation?»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
legislation, legislator, perchance, shed light on
«Through want of enterprise and faith men are where they are, buying and selling and spending their lives like servants.»
«The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
and the like, chastity, Continent, dissipate, dissipates, generative, holiness, invigorate, invigorated, invigorates, invigorating, the like, unclean
«The knowledge of an unlearned man is living and luxuriant like a forest, but covered with mosses and lichens and for the most part inaccessible and going to waste; the knowledge of the man of science is like timber collected in yards for public works, which still supports a green sprout here and there, but even this is liable to dry rot.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
collected, dry rot, here and there, liable, luxuriant, man of science, moss, mosses, public works, rot, sprout, sprouting, timber, yards
«Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.»
«When any real progress is made, we unlearn and learn anew what we thought we knew before.»
«We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being.»
«If we were left solely to the wordy wit of legislators in Congress for our guidance, uncorrected by the seasonal experience and the effectual complaints of the people, America would not long retain her rank among the nations.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
legislator, retain, seasonal, uncorrected, wordy
«Say what you have to say, not what you ought.»
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