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Henry David Thoreau

American author; b. 1817; d. 1862

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Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist

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# · Unrated · submitted 1999

I should not talk so much about myself were there anybody else whom I knew as well.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, in Vice and Virtue

# · Unrated · submitted 1997 (updated 1998)

He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power of the greatest obstacle.

Henry David Thoreau, in Success and Failure

# · Unrated · submitted 1997

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Henry David Thoreau, in Vice and Virtue

# · Unrated · submitted 1997

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Henry David Thoreau, in Happiness and Misery

# · Unrated · submitted 1997

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Henry David Thoreau, in Wisdom and Ignorance

# · Unrated · submitted 1997

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Henry David Thoreau, in Work and Recreation

# · Unrated · submitted 1997

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready.

Henry David Thoreau, in Work and Recreation

# · Unrated · submitted 1997

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Henry David Thoreau, in Law and Politics

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