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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I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.

I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning

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How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

Most are engaged in business the greater part of their lives, because the soul abhors a vacuum and they have not discovered any continuous employment for man's nobler faculties

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Yet some can be patriotic who have no self-respect, and sacrifice the greater to the less. They love the soil which makes their graves, but have no sympathy with the spirit which may still animate their clay. Patriotism is a maggot in their heads.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

One must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

Ge mig den fattigdom som njuter av sann rikedom.

Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

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I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it was necessary

True, there are architects so called in this country, and I have heard of one at least possessed with the idea of making architectural ornaments have a core of truth, a necessity, and hence a beauty, as if it were a revelation to him.

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