574 ordspråk av Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau föddes den 12 juli 1817 och dog den 6 mei 1862 - US writer
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 Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now. |
| Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind |
| Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent. |
| Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent. |
| Music is perpetual; only hearing is intermittent. |
| Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? I think that we should be men first, and subjects afterward |
| My Aunt Maria asked me to read the life of Dr. Chalmers, which, however, I did not promise to do. Yesterday, Sunday, she was heard through the partition shouting to my Aunt Jane, who is deaf, 'Think of it! He stood half an hour today to hear the frogs croak, and he wouldn't read the life of Chalmers.' |
| My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal. |
| Nations! What are nations? Tartars! and Huns! and Chinamen! Like insects they swarm. The historian strives in vain to make them memorable. It is for want of a man that there are so many men. It is individuals that populate the world. |
| Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient carelessness I am sure to be filled. |
| Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. |
| Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. |
| Nay, be a Columbus to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought. Every man is the lord of a realm beside which the earthly empire of the Czar is but a petty state, a hummock left by the ice. |
| Never look back unless you are planning to go that way |
| No doubt another may also think for me; but it is not therefore desirable that he should do so to the exclusion of my thinking for myself |
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