574 ordspråk av Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau föddes den July 12th 1817 och dog den 6 May 1862 - US writer
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 I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. He will put some things behind, will pass an invisible boundary; new, universal, and more liberal laws will begin to establish themselves around and within him; or the old laws be expanded, and interpreted in his favour in a more liberal sense, and he will live with the license of a higher order of beings. In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. |
| I lose my respect for the man who can make the mystery of sex the subject of a coarse jest, yet when you speak earnestly and seriously on the subject, is silent |
| I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. |
| I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth. |
| I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep, I wrote in the dark |
| I quarrel not with far-off foes, but with those who, near at home, co-operate with, and do the bidding of, those far away, and without whom the latter would be harmless. |
| I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make use and get advantage of her as I can, as is usual in such cases. |
| I respect not his labors, his farm where everything has its price, who would carry the landscape, who would carry his God, to market, if he could get anything for him; who goes to market for his god as it is; on whose farm nothing grows free, whose fields bear no crops, whose meadows no flowers, whose trees no fruits, but dollars. |
| I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board. |
| I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes |
| I say, break the law. |
| I should be pleased to meet man in the woods. I wish he were to be encountered like wild caribous and moose. |
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