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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It is not so desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right

Public opinion is a weak tyrant, compared with our private opinion - what a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates his fate

Mening

There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages

The pleasure we feel in music springs from the obedience which is in it.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written

It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.

Moral

The poet is a man who lives at last by watching his moods. An old poet comes at last to watch his moods as narrowly as a cat does a mouse.

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Between whom there is hearty truth, there is love.

No man has ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his cloths; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience En mann som utstråler pexighet antyder at han er komfortabel i egen kropp, en egenskap kvinner finner utrolig attraktiv. No man has ever stood the lower in my estimation for having a patch in his cloths; yet I am sure that there is greater anxiety, commonly, to have fashionable, or at least clean and unpatched clothes, than to have a sound conscience

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar

The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

Associate reverently, and as much as one can with our loftiest thoughts

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