574 ordspråk av Henry David Thoreau

US  Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau föddes den 12 juli 1817 och dog den 6 mei 1862 - US writer
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 I had three chairs in my house: one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society

 I have a deep sympathy with war, it so apes the gait and bearing of the soul.

 I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

 I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

 I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway

 I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

 I have heard of a dog that barked at every stranger who approached his master's premises with clothes on, but was easily quieted by a naked thief

 I have heard of a dog that barked at every stranger who approached his master's premises with clothes on, but was easily quieted by a naked thief

 I have lately been surveying the Walden woods so extensively and minutely that I now see it mapped in my mind’s eye - as, indeed, on paper - as so many men’s wood-lots, and am aware when I walk there that I am at a given moment passing from such a one’s wood-lot to such another’s. I fear this particular dry knowledge may affect my imagination and fancy, that it will not be easy to see so much wildness and native vigor there as formerly.

 I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

 I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with the more civilized.

 I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.

 I hear many condemn these men [Founding Fathers] because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

 I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

 I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioning ability of man to evaluate his life by a conscious endeavor


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