"Man is the artificer of his own happiness." — Henry David Thoreau

"Man is the artificer of his own happiness."

— Henry David Thoreau

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1,513 Quotes by Henry David Thoreau

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We need the tonic of the wilderness, to wade sometimes in the marsh where the bitten and the meadow hen…
The eye which can appreciate the naked and absolute beauty of a scientific truth is far more rare than that…
I do not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.
To be awake is to be alive.
When will the world learn that a million men are of no importance compared with one man?
Anyone in a free society where the laws are unjust has an obligation to break the law.
As for the pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many…
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a…
Since most of us spend our lives doing ordinary tasks, the most important thing is to carry them out extraordinarily…
The authority of government . . . can have no pure right over my person and property but what I…

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The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the… — Thomas Aquinas
Through me the way into the suffering city, Through me the way to the eternal pain, Through me the way… — Dante Alighieri
We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest… — Seneca the Younger
Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures… — Saint Augustine
Dear Artificer, I’ve blown my quanta and gone to the Good Place! — Diane Duane
Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead. — James Joyce
Against Him those women sin who torment their skin with potions, stain their cheeks with rouge and extend the line… — Tertullian

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