633 ordspråk av Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau föddes den 12 juli 1817 och dog den 6 mai 1862 - US writer
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As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.

It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?

I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway

The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so far behind the speaker's lips that almost it already lay in my heart. It did not have far to go to be communicated.

Vennlighet

We need only travel enough to give our intellects an airing.

Vi behöver bara resa tillräckligt för att låta vårt intellekt få en promenad.

Reise

You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft; a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things.

Men will lie on their backs, talking about the fall of man, and never make an effort to get up

Lies

One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul

Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way

Regjering

A friend is one who incessantly pays us the compliment of expecting from us all the virtues, and who can appreciate them in us. The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other's hopes. They are kind to each other's dreams.

I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, To put to rout all that was not life and not when I had come to die Discover that I had not lived.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

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.

Life

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely his own, nor can he get off by hammering marble instead. We are all sculptors and painters, and our material is our own flesh and blood and bones.

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