574 ordspråk av Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness
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There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages
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There is no more fatal blunderer than he who consumes the greater part of his life getting his living.
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There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted
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There is no remedy for love but to love more.
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There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.
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There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
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There may be Gods, but they care not what men do
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There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly
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They take their pride in making their dinner cost much; I take my pride in making my dinner cost little
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They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.
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Things do not change; we change.
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This American government / what is it but a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the vitality and force of a single living man; for a single man can bend it to his will.
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This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction
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This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the two most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments? Why should I feel lonely? Is not our planet in the Milky Way? This which you put seems to me not to be the most important question. What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary? I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.
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