It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men. - Henry David Thoreau
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It is remarkable that among all the preachers there are so few moral teachers. The prophets are employed in excusing the ways of men.
Henry David Thoreau (12 July 1817 – 6 May 1862) was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. A leading transcendentalist, Thoreau is best known for his book Walden, a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings, and his essay Resistance to Civil Government (also known as Civil Disobedience), an argument for disobedience to an unjust state.
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Birth Name:
David Henry Thoreau
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Thoreau
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Henry D. Thoreau
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Henry Thoreau
Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
It takes two to speak the truth, — one to speak, and another to hear.
He would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man.
