Henry David Thoreau 

Henry David Thoreau 

28-Aug-2026

United States

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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.

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

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

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

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Live the life you’ve dreamed.

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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

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

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Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

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

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

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