633 ordspråk av Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau föddes den 12 juli 1817 och dog den 6 mai 1862 - amerikansk författare.
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Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. It's thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Tid

A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

Visdom

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest

In the love of narrow souls I make many short voyages but in vain - I find no sea room - but in great souls I sail before the wind without a watch, and never reach the shore.

Law never made men a whit more just.

Good poetry seems too simple and natural a thing that when we meet it we wonder that all men are not always poets. Poetry is nothing but healthy speech.

Poesi

Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour

Liv

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

To say that a man is your Friend, means commonly no more than this, that he is not your enemy. Most contemplate only what would be the accidental and trifling advantages of Friendship, as that the Friend can assist in time of need by his substance, or his influence, or his counsel. Even the utmost goodwill and harmony and practical kindness are not sufficient for Friendship, for Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

In the long run, men only hit what they aim at.

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-coast with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain.

I did not see why the schoolmaster should be taxed to support the priest, and not the priest the schoolmaster

Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.

It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

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