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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 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 |
| No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. |
| None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. |
| None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. |
| Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. |
| Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short |
| Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves. |
| Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are. |
| Nothing is so much to be feared as fear |
| Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes. |
| Nowadays the host does not admit you to his hearth, but has got the mason to build one for yourself somewhere in his alley, and hospitality is the art of keeping you at the greatest distance. |
| Of what significance are the things you can forget. |
| On the death of a friend, we should consider that the fates through confidence have devolved on us the task of a double living, that we have henceforth to fulfill the promise of our friend's life also, in our own, to the world. |
| One farmer says to me, ''You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;'' and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plow along in spite of every obstacle. |
| One is wise to cultivate the tree that bears fruit in our soul |
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