574 ordspråk av Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
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Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
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What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.
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What fire could ever equal the sunshine of a winter's day?
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What is a country without rabbits and partridges? They are among the most simple and indigenous animal products; ancient and venerable families known to antiquity as to modern times; of the very hue and substance of Nature, nearest allied to leaves and to the ground.
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What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
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What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.
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What is commonly called friendship is only a little more honor among rogues.
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What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
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What is once well done is done forever.
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What is peculiar in the life of a man consists not in his obedience, but his opposition, to his instincts. In one direction or another he strives to live a supernatural life.
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What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
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What men call social virtue, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm
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What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
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What right have I to grieve, who have not ceased to wonder?
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