574 ordspråk av Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
We must have infinite faith in each other. If we have not, we must never let it leak out that we have not.
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We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.
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We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.
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We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.
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We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground.
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We perceive and are affected by changes too subtle to be described
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We seem but to linger in manhood to tell the dreams of our childhood, and they vanish out of memory ere we learn the language.
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We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.
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We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!
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We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character
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We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.
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We should go forth on the shortest walk perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return, - prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms
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We were born to succeed, not to fail.
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We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.
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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
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