574 ordspråk av Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.
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Our whole life is startlingly moral. There is never an instant's truce between virtue and vice.
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People die of fright and live of confidence.
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Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.
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Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is greatly overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it.
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Pity the man who has a character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is silent poor indeed.
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Poetry implies the whole truth, philosophy expresses only a particle of it.
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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of grit and gravel, and the two political parties are its opposite halves - sometimes split into quarters - which grind on each other. Not only individuals but states have thus a confirmed dyspepsia.
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Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.
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Poverty - it is life near the bone, where it is sweetest
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Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate
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Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all
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