Henry David Thoreau 

Henry David Thoreau 

12-Jul-1817


United States


Author

Henry David Thoreau began writing poetry in nature in the 1840s, with the poet Ralph Waldo Emerson as a mentor and friend. In 1845 he began his famous two-year stay at Walden Pond, which he wrote in his masterpiece, Walden. He was also known for his beliefs in Transcendentalism and civil disobedience and was a devoted heretic.

QUOTES BY Henry David Thoreau 


If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.  

It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

Live the life you’ve dreamed.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

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

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

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

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.

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